Abstract
Intentional Controlled Islanding (ICI) has been proposed as a corrective measure of last resort to split the power system into several sustainable islands and prevent cascading outages. This paper proposes a novel ICI algorithm based on a linear programming (LP) formulation that directly determines an islanding solution with minimal power-flow disruption for any given number of islands, while ensuring that each island contains only coherent generators. In addition, the proposed algorithm enables operators to constrain any transmission line to be excluded from the solution, allows the control of the size of islands and ensures their connectivity. The basis of the proposed LP formulation is an exact mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation. A search space reduction procedure that generates additional constraints for reducing the search space of the MILP is also proposed. In most cases, these additional constraints are enough for the relaxed MILP formulation (LP formulation) to generate optimal solutions. Nonetheless, the proposed LP formulation is executed as a part of a recursive linearization procedure, which ensures that optimal solutions are always obtained. Multiple simulation results demonstrate the ability of the proposed LP ICI algorithm to meet the requirement of real-time controlled islanding in large-scale power systems.
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