TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling weather dependence in online reliability assessment of power systems
AU - Perkin, Samuel
AU - Svendsen, Arne Brufladt
AU - Tollefsen, Trond
AU - Honve, Ingrid
AU - Baldursdottir, Iris
AU - Stefansson, Hlynur
AU - Kristjansson, Ragnar
AU - Jensson, Pall
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - Probabilistic reliability assessment of power systems is an ongoing field of research, particularly in the development of tools to model the probability of exogenous threats and their potential consequences. This paper describes the application of a weather-dependent failure rate model to a region of the Icelandic transmission system, using 10 years of weather data and overhead line fault records. The studied failure rate model is compared with a constant failure rate model, in terms of variability and how well the models perform in a blind test over a 2 year period in reflecting the occurrence of outages. The weather-dependent and constant failure rate models are used as input to a state-of-the-art risk assessment tool to determine the sensitivity of such software to weather-dependent threats. The results show the importance of weather-dependent contingency probabilities in risk estimation, and in quantitative assessment of maintenance activities. The results also demonstrate that inclusion of weather dependence in power system reliability assessments affects the overall distribution of risk as a positively skewed distribution, with high-risk periods occurring at low frequency.
AB - Probabilistic reliability assessment of power systems is an ongoing field of research, particularly in the development of tools to model the probability of exogenous threats and their potential consequences. This paper describes the application of a weather-dependent failure rate model to a region of the Icelandic transmission system, using 10 years of weather data and overhead line fault records. The studied failure rate model is compared with a constant failure rate model, in terms of variability and how well the models perform in a blind test over a 2 year period in reflecting the occurrence of outages. The weather-dependent and constant failure rate models are used as input to a state-of-the-art risk assessment tool to determine the sensitivity of such software to weather-dependent threats. The results show the importance of weather-dependent contingency probabilities in risk estimation, and in quantitative assessment of maintenance activities. The results also demonstrate that inclusion of weather dependence in power system reliability assessments affects the overall distribution of risk as a positively skewed distribution, with high-risk periods occurring at low frequency.
KW - Environmental risk
KW - failure data analysis
KW - network reliability
KW - probabilistic methods
KW - system simulation
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U2 - 10.1177/1748006X17694951
DO - 10.1177/1748006X17694951
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026914622
SN - 1748-006X
VL - 231
SP - 364
EP - 372
JO - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability
JF - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability
IS - 4
ER -