Enhancing of the operational decisions in Electric Power Systems under blackouts

ALVAREZ, GONZALO E.; BLAS, MARIA JULIA

Sakheer

Congreso; THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DECISION AID SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS (DASA'20); 2020

College of Business Administration at the University of Bahrain

The operation of electric power systems is a complex task that includes the control and supervision of a great number of elements. A failure in any of them could generate system disturbances and, if they get worse, blackouts can be produced. In this regard, this works presents a model that helps with the decisions in the field of efficiency of these systems. The model analyzes the line status considering the combination of factors that are not frequently addressed in the literature. It allows enhancing the operation decisions by proposing alternative schedules that reduce the possibility of the systems to suffer failures. To prove the effectiveness of the model, a real case is studied: the great blackout of the Argentine System in 2019. Results show alternative solutions, which would have been useful to operate the system during this event, by reducing the power flows in risk lines with only 0.05% of the cost increase.