Frequency-Aware Sparse Optimization for Diagnosing Grid Instabilities and Collapses

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Hauptverfasser: Vhakta, Swadesh, Osipov, Denis, Biswas, Reetam Sen, Pandey, Amritanshu, Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali, Li, Shimiao
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author Vhakta, Swadesh
Osipov, Denis
Biswas, Reetam Sen
Pandey, Amritanshu
Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali
Li, Shimiao
author_facet Vhakta, Swadesh
Osipov, Denis
Biswas, Reetam Sen
Pandey, Amritanshu
Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali
Li, Shimiao
contents This paper aims to proactively diagnose and manage frequency instability risks from a steady-state perspective, without the need for derivative-dependent transient modeling. Specifically, we jointly address two questions (Q1) Survivability: following a disturbance and the subsequent primary frequency response, can the system settle into a healthy steady state (feasible with an acceptable frequency deviation $Δf$)? (Q2) Dominant Vulnerability: if found unstable, what critical vulnerabilities create instability and/or full collapse? To address these questions, we first augment steady-state power flow states to include frequency-dependent governor relationships (i.e., governor power flow). Afterwards, we propose a frequency-aware sparse optimization that finds the minimal set of bus locations with measurable compensations (corrective actions) to enforce power balance and maintain frequency within predefined/acceptable bounds. We evaluate our method on standard transmission systems to empirically validate its ability to localize dominant sources of vulnerabilities. For a 1354-bus large system, our method detects compensations to only four buses under N-1 generation outage (3424.8 MW) while enforcing a maximum allowable steady-state frequency drop of 0.06 Hz (otherwise, frequency drops by nearly 0.08 Hz). We further validate the scalability of our method, requiring less than four minutes to obtain sparse solutions for the 1354-bus system.
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spellingShingle Frequency-Aware Sparse Optimization for Diagnosing Grid Instabilities and Collapses
Vhakta, Swadesh
Osipov, Denis
Biswas, Reetam Sen
Pandey, Amritanshu
Hosseinalipour, Seyyedali
Li, Shimiao
Systems and Control
This paper aims to proactively diagnose and manage frequency instability risks from a steady-state perspective, without the need for derivative-dependent transient modeling. Specifically, we jointly address two questions (Q1) Survivability: following a disturbance and the subsequent primary frequency response, can the system settle into a healthy steady state (feasible with an acceptable frequency deviation $Δf$)? (Q2) Dominant Vulnerability: if found unstable, what critical vulnerabilities create instability and/or full collapse? To address these questions, we first augment steady-state power flow states to include frequency-dependent governor relationships (i.e., governor power flow). Afterwards, we propose a frequency-aware sparse optimization that finds the minimal set of bus locations with measurable compensations (corrective actions) to enforce power balance and maintain frequency within predefined/acceptable bounds. We evaluate our method on standard transmission systems to empirically validate its ability to localize dominant sources of vulnerabilities. For a 1354-bus large system, our method detects compensations to only four buses under N-1 generation outage (3424.8 MW) while enforcing a maximum allowable steady-state frequency drop of 0.06 Hz (otherwise, frequency drops by nearly 0.08 Hz). We further validate the scalability of our method, requiring less than four minutes to obtain sparse solutions for the 1354-bus system.
title Frequency-Aware Sparse Optimization for Diagnosing Grid Instabilities and Collapses
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07553