Structural vulnerability analysis of electric power distribution grids
Y Koc (TU Delft - System Engineering)
Abhishek Raman (Apple Inc.)
Martijn Warnier (TU Delft - System Engineering)
Tarun Kumar (IBM)
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Abstract
Power grid outages cause huge economical and societal costs. Disruptions in the power distribution grid are responsible for a significant fraction of electric power unavailability to customers. The impact of extreme weather conditions, continuously increasing demand, and the over-ageing of assets in the grid, deteriorates the safety of electric power delivery. Measures to analyse the robustness characteristics and to identify vulnerabilities of power grids are of utmost importance. This paper proposes a metric to quantitatively assess the robustness of power distribution grids from a topological point of view. Real-world data is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed metric as a tool to assess the criticality of assets in a distribution grid.