Geometry-based estimation of stability region for a class of structure preserving power grids

The increasing development of the electric power grid, the largest engineered system ever, to an even more complicated and larger system requires a new generation of stability assessment methods that are computationally tractable and feasible in real-time. In this paper we first extend the recently...

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Main Authors: Vu, Thanh Long, Turitsyn, Konstantin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109338
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3140-2144
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-8962
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Summary:The increasing development of the electric power grid, the largest engineered system ever, to an even more complicated and larger system requires a new generation of stability assessment methods that are computationally tractable and feasible in real-time. In this paper we first extend the recently introduced Lyapunov Functions Family (LFF) transient stability assessment approach, that has potential to reduce the computational cost on large scale power grids, to structure-preserving power grids. Then, we introduce a new geometry-based method to construct the stability region estimate of power systems. Our conceptual demonstration shows that this new method can certify stability of a broader set of initial conditions compared to the minimization-based LFF method and the energy methods (closest UEP and controlling UEP methods).