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Main Authors: Barnes, Arthur K., Mate, Adam, Bent, Russell
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07302
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author Barnes, Arthur K.
Mate, Adam
Bent, Russell
author_facet Barnes, Arthur K.
Mate, Adam
Bent, Russell
contents Space weather poses a tremendous threat to power systems: geomagnetic disturbances could result in widespread disruptions and long-duration blackouts, including severe damage to system components. To mitigate their impacts, a handful of strategies exist, with the most promising being the deployment of transformer neutral blocking devices. The high cost of these devices, however, precludes their installation at all substations; this motivates the development of effective solutions for the cost-effective placement of such devices. While the current state-of-the-art in blocker placement methods is insufficient to be applied to real-sized power grids, ongoing research continues to increase the size of networks for which the placement problem remains tractable. Along these lines, the contributions of this paper are two fold: first, a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in blocker placement methods is provided; and second, a complete optimization formulation - implemented and benchmarked in an open-source software - for the blocker placement problem is presented.
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spellingShingle A Review of the GIC Blocker Placement Problem
Barnes, Arthur K.
Mate, Adam
Bent, Russell
Systems and Control
Space weather poses a tremendous threat to power systems: geomagnetic disturbances could result in widespread disruptions and long-duration blackouts, including severe damage to system components. To mitigate their impacts, a handful of strategies exist, with the most promising being the deployment of transformer neutral blocking devices. The high cost of these devices, however, precludes their installation at all substations; this motivates the development of effective solutions for the cost-effective placement of such devices. While the current state-of-the-art in blocker placement methods is insufficient to be applied to real-sized power grids, ongoing research continues to increase the size of networks for which the placement problem remains tractable. Along these lines, the contributions of this paper are two fold: first, a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in blocker placement methods is provided; and second, a complete optimization formulation - implemented and benchmarked in an open-source software - for the blocker placement problem is presented.
title A Review of the GIC Blocker Placement Problem
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07302