Monte Carlo simulation of power system stability

Journal Article · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983 · IEEE Trans. Power Appar. Syst.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAS.1983.317843· OSTI ID:5245639

Timko, K J; Anderson, P M; Bose, A

This paper presents a Monte Carlo simulation of the transient stability of a power system. The simulation time is in the order of years in which the occurrence of disturbances and the subsequent protective action are considered to be stochastic processes. The objective is to obtain a probabilistic measure of transient stability for a power system instead of just its particular response to an individual disturbance. The latter is the usual output of deterministic transient stability programs that are used for present day worst case analysis. A probabilistic analysis is needed if such worst case design criteria is to be replaced by (probabilistic) reliability criteria. This paper describes a computer program that has been developed for such a Monte Carlo simulation and presents some results of its application to representative systems.

• Research Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
• OSTI ID: 5245639
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Power Appar. Syst.; (United States), Journal Name: IEEE Trans. Power Appar. Syst.; (United States) Vol. PAS-102:10; ISSN IEPSA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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200300* -- Electric Power Engineering-- Power Transmission & Distribution-- (-1989)
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
ELECTRICAL TRANSIENTS
ENERGY SYSTEMS
LOAD ANALYSIS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
POWER SYSTEMS
PROBABILITY
SIMULATION
STABILITY
STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
TRANSIENTS
VOLTAGE DROP