A fast outage planning method focusing on circuit breakers near outage facilities

Chihaya Murakami, Aya Fujiwara, Shinichi Iwamoto

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    Abstract

    Japanese electric power utilities installed many electric power facilities to respond to increasing power demand in the era of high economic growth. However, these facilities have aged about 40 years and should be replaced in the near future. The utilities will now have to replace larger numbers of facilities at the same time because of the increase in the number of power facilities to be replaced. Therefore, outage planning should be made more efficient. However, creating an outage plan requires time and labor, because the plan must specify (1) the outage schedule, (2) the power system configuration during outage operations, and (3) the system switching of the power system in order to conduct the outage operations. To solve these problems, a fast outage planning method focusing on circuit breakers near the outage facilities is proposed in this paper. Simulations run on IEEJ subtransmission system model I confirm the validity of the proposed method.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)9-17
    Number of pages9
    JournalElectrical Engineering in Japan (English translation of Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi)
    Volume191
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015 May 1

    Keywords

    • Outage planning
    • Subtransmission system
    • System switching
    • Tabu search
    • Traveling salesman problem

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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