Modern electricity grids continue to be vulnerable to large-scale blackouts. During the past ten years events in North America, Europe and Asia have clearly demonstrated an increasing likelihood of large blackouts. If pre-emergency conditions are identified, preventive actions can be taken, and large-scale blackouts avoided. In the current competitive environment, such conditions may not be easily detected because different problems may simultaneously occur in different parts of a large network within different jurisdictions. In the paper a novel viable approach is proposed to minimise the threat of large-scale blackouts. The proposed system consist of two main parts: the alarm trigger, an intelligent neural network-based system for early detection of possible alarm states in a power system, and the competitive–collaborative multi-agent control system. We demonstrated the approach on the modified 53-bus IEEE power system. Results are presented and discussed.

Item Type:	Refereed Conference Paper
Keywords:	blackout, preventive emergency control, voltage stability, Kohonen network, multi-agent control system
Research Division:	Engineering
Research Group:	Electrical engineering
Research Field:	Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)
Objective Division:	Energy
Objective Group:	Energy storage, distribution and supply
Objective Field:	Energy storage, distribution and supply not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Negnevitsky, M (Professor Michael Negnevitsky)
ID Code:	88408
Year Published:	2013
Web of Science® Times Cited:	1
Deposited By:	Engineering
Deposited On:	2014-01-31
Last Modified:	2017-11-06
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