Working Group: Understanding, Prediction,
Mitigation and Restoration of Cascading Failures
IEEE PES Computer and Analytical Methods Subcommittee (CAMS)
Working group meeting on September 30, 2015
A working group (WG) conference call was held on September 30, 2015. Thirteen
(13) participants were in attendance.
The WG conference call attendees were:
Attendee
Affiliation
Milorad Papic
Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez
Ian Dobson
Pierre Henneaux
Alex Flueck
Andrea Pitto
Sayonsom Chanda
Jorge Jardim
Michael Marz
John Stubban
Sean Norris
Nader Samaan
Marianna Vaiman
Idaho Power
Oregon State University
Iowa State University
Tractebel Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
RSE
Idaho National Laboratory
HPPA
American Transmission Inc
Boise State University
Alstom
PNNL
V&R Energy
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Action Items
1) Eduardo. Upload GM panel presentations to working group public website.
2) Steve/Paul/Ian. Submit benchmarking paper reviews.
Contact Information
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Working Group Chair: Milorad Papic, Idaho Power, mpapic@idahopower.com
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Working Group Vice Chair: Paul Hines, Univ. of Vermont,
paul.hines@uvm.edu
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Working Group Secretary: Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Oregon State University,
(541) 737-8926, ecs@oregonstate.edu
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Working Group Websites:
http://sites.ieee.org/pes-camscftf/ (public)
http://cftf.oc.ieee.org/wiki/ (private)
The meeting agenda and minutes for each item are listed below:
Agenda:
1.
Welcome/Introductions
Milorad will connect later in the call, Eduardo to moderate and take notes
from discussion.
2.
Approve agenda and review July 2015 minutes.
Minutes were approved. Eduardo: Any feedback from General Meeting
sessions? Nader: A lot of presentations but not much time allotted for discussion.
3.
4.
5.
Review of Previous Action Items
Review WG Activities at GM 2015
An update on current WG activities (Wei, Alex, Pierre, Marianna, Steve)
Pierre, benchmarking activities. Pierre has been working on preparing
the RTS and Poland test systems and asks for feedback on assumptions, on data
needed, and on format. Once we all agree we will post these cases to our website.
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Ian: Question about validation as well as benchmarking. Is there any
interest in comparing the statistics of these test cases with real life statistics?
Pierre: It would be hard if they are not real systems.
Ian: At some point in due course we need to compare with some form of
the system in real life. Include in the mix some global statistics as well.
Alex: Folks at PNNL are using synthetic data.
Andrea: There are several applications that will differ in terms of
operating point. It will be difficult to compare the outcomes.
Ian: If one takes only one initial condition we don’t have the risk of
cascading, just something very restricted. Hard to identify critical elements for
just that scenario.
Pierre: Agreed, we miss statistics if we just look at one operating point.
Working group volunteers to support this effort: Ian, Eduardo, Andrea, John,
and Chanda.
Alex, protection systems. Currently have 8 people interested in this task
force. Working on a panel session proposal. Nader Samaan from PNNL also
interested in proposing a panel.
Steve, benchmarking paper. Steve doesn’t seem to be able to get online.
Ian: We are throwing off the opportunity if we don’t carefully respond in a
timely manner.
Consensus so far: a) Combine into one paper. b) Each person in the group
do their assignments then combine a draft. Do this right after the call.
Marianna, survey. State-of-the-art in cascading analysis. In collaboration
with IEEE – NATF – NERC.
6.
WG panel at GM 2016
Panel proposal submitted to CAMS on behalf of the working group.
Nader: What is the length? Very interested in talking about PNNL work. Alex:
The goal is to avoid several lengthy presenters; we can discuss swap outs if
there’s a later opportunity.
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7.
Review of New Action Items
Milorad: Participation in NASPI meetings on behalf of the working group.
Jorge: Working on a dispatch training simulator project. This could be
useful to create several different scenarios for other efforts in the working group.
8.
10.
Next Meeting
Adjourn
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