Coordinated preventive control of transient stability with multi-contingency in power systems using trajectory sensitivities

In this paper, the challenging multi-contingency transient stability constrained optimal power flow problem is partitioned into two sub-problems, namely optimal power flow (OPF) and transient stability control, solved in turn with conventional well trusted power system analysis tools instead of tackling it directly using a complicated integrated approach. Preventive multi-contingency transient stability control is carried out with generation rescheduling based on trajectory sensitivities using results obtained from a conventional transient stability simulation. A new iterative approach is proposed to optimally redistribute the generation from the critical machines to noncritical machines with the help of conventional OPF. Results on the New England 10-machine 39-bus systems demonstrate that the proposed method is capable of handling multiple contingencies and complex power systemmodels effectively with solution quantity and time comparable with conventional integrated approaches. 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.