Robust Corrective Topology Control for System Reliability

Abstract

Corrective transmission switching schemes are an essential part of grid operations and are used to improve the reliability of the grid as well as the operational efficiency. Today, the transmission switching schemes are established based on the operator's past knowledge of the system as well as other ad-hoc methods. In this paper, three topology control (corrective transmission switching) methodologies are presented along with the detailed formulation of robust corrective switching. By incorporating robust optimization into the corrective switching framework, the switching solution is guaranteed to be feasible for a range of system operating states. The robust model can be solved offline to suggest switching actions that can be used in a dynamic security assessment tool in real-time. The proposed robust topology control algorithm can also generate multiple corrective switching actions for a particular contingency. The robust topology control formulation is tested on an IEEE 118-bus test case with different uncertainty sets.