Reducing the Vulnerability of Electric Power Grids to Terrorist Attacks
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Authors
Baldick, Ross
Boutsika, Thekla
Hur, Jin
Joung, Manho
Wu, Yin
Zhong, Minqi
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2009-01-31
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The University of Texas at Austin
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Abstract
This project (‘Reducing the Vulnerability of Electric Power Grids to Terrorist Attacks’) is collaborative research with the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Energy. The research at The University of Texas focuses on analyzing cascading outages in large-scale electricity grids, both as a standalone tool and also as a component to eventually be added to the Vulnerability of Electric Grids Analyzer (VEGA) [1]. We refer to the proposal (Wood, Salmeron and Baldick 2003), and references therein, for detailed background on the problem of electric power-grid vulnerability. In that document, goals were established for this research and its critical importance. One aspect of that research, conducted primarily at University of Texas at Austin (UT), is the development of a cascading analysis tool, building on the experiences of a prototype tool developed by Commonwealth Associates and described in a white paper [2]. This development is aimed at including the short-term effects of cascading outages into the analysis of network vulnerability. In addition to integrating representation of cascading outages into VEGA, informal feedback from industry suggested that it was also important that for this research to develop a standalone cascading analysis tool. Development as a standalone tool has also facilitated the division of activities between NPS and UT. This report details the development of the prototype standalone tool. Future work includes extending the types of initial disturbances that can be considered and integration of the tool with VEGA.
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Final Project Report
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Naval Postgraduate School
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DOE Research Project DE-FG02-05ER25671
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85 p.
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Baldick, Ross, et al. Reducing the vulnerability of electric power grids to terrorist attacks. No. DOE/ER/25671-1. Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States), 2009.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.