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A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Congestion and Reliability in Electric Power Networks

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  • Seth Blumsack
  • Lester B. Lave
  • Marija Ilic

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Restructuring efforts in the U.S. electric power sector have tried to encourage transmission investment by independent (non-utility) transmission companies, and have promoted various levels of market-based transmission investment. Underlying this shift to ÒmerchantÓ transmission investment is an assumption that new transmission infrastructure can be classified as providing a congestion-relief benefit or a reliability benefit. In this paper, we demonstrate that this assumption is largely incorrect for meshed interconnections such as electric power networks. We focus on a particular network topology known as the Wheatstone network to show how congestion and reliability can represent tradeoffs. Lines that cause congestion may be justified on reliability grounds. We decompose the congestion and reliability effects of a given network alteration, and demonstrate their dependence through simulations on a 118bus test network. The true relationship between congestion and reliability depends critically on identifying the relevant range of demand for evaluating any network externalities.

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  • Seth Blumsack & Lester B. Lave & Marija Ilic, 2007. "A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Congestion and Reliability in Electric Power Networks," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 4), pages 73-100.
    • Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:2007v28-04-a04
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    1. William Hogan & Juan Rosellón & Ingo Vogelsang, 2010. "Toward a combined merchant-regulatory mechanism for electricity transmission expansion," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 38(2), pages 113-143, October.
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    11. Emma S. Johnson & Santanu Subhas Dey, 2022. "A Scalable Lower Bound for the Worst-Case Relay Attack Problem on the Transmission Grid," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 34(4), pages 2296-2312, July.
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