A Novel Cascading Faults Graph Based Transmission Network Vulnerability Assessment Method

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel cascading faults graph (CFG) based on fault chain theory to assess the transmission network vulnerability. The proposed CFG is able to effectively reveal the mechanism of fault propagation in a transmission network by transforming an electrical network with spatial information into a fault propagation graph with temporal information, thus providing a better way for transmission network vulnerability assessment. Numerical results on IEEE 39-, 118-bus systems and French grid demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.