A Learning-Based Method for Generating Synthetic Power Grids
Autor: | Gil Zussman, Alexander Loh, Saleh Soltan |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
021103 operations research
Computer Networks and Communications Computer science Distributed computing 0211 other engineering and technologies Western Interconnection 02 engineering and technology Network topology Grid Computer Science Applications Power (physics) Transmission (telecommunications) Control and Systems Engineering Robustness (computer science) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Resilience (network) Information Systems Vulnerability (computing) |
Zdroj: | IEEE Systems Journal. 13:625-634 |
ISSN: | 2373-7816 1932-8184 |
DOI: | 10.1109/jsyst.2018.2825785 |
Popis: | Analysis and improvement of power grids resilience and efficiency requires the topologies and geographical coordinates of the real transmission networks. However, due to security reasons, such topologies and particularly the locations of the substations and lines are usually not publicly available. In this work, we thoroughly study the structural properties of the U.S. Western Interconnection grid (WI) and, based on the results, present the network imitating method based on learning (NIMBLE) for generating synthetic spatially embedded networks with similar properties to a given grid. We apply NIMBLE to the WI and show that it can generate networks with similar structural and spatial properties as well the same level of robustness to failures to the WI, without revealing the real locations of the lines and substations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to consider the spatial distributions of the buses (nodes) and lines and their importance in generating synthetic grids. Moreover, this is the first time that the power flows and vulnerability against failures are considered in evaluating a synthetic power grid. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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