Abstract
The primary goal of this paper is to develop an optimization framework for studying the efficacy of transmission line reactance tweaking as a mechanism for post-disturbance control in a transmission network. We start by developing a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for tracking the redistribution of direct current (DC) flows and the graph-theoretic evolution of a network topology over the course of cascading failures. Next, we propose a min–max setup for studying the impact of post-disturbance reactance tweaking on the resilience of the system to a worst-case disturbance. We devise a MILP reformulation scheme for the underlying bilevel non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear program to facilitate the computation of its globally optimal solution. We then develop a MILP framework for computing a tight upper bound (best-case scenario) on the efficacy of post-disturbance reactance tweaking for a given set of bus loads. Our numerical case study suggests that post-disturbance reactance tweaking, even on only a small number of lines, can be effective in reducing the amount of load shed in some scenarios in the tested system.
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