Abstract

This study analyzes electrical grid resilience, the evaluation methods, and resilience metrics, as well as the impact of a nuclear power plant as a base-load supplier on the resilience of an electrical grid during extreme events such as high-speed winds or hurricanes. The case study was implemented on a 10-generator 39-bus system (New England) using PowerWorld, and the data extraction and plotting were performed using MATLAB. The wind speeds, fragility curves, and time-to-restore function were randomly created based on previous models, and their values were extracted from MATLAB calculation using randomly generated but uniformly distributed wind speeds. The resilience metrics chosen were ΦΛΕΠ metrics, which demonstrate the operational and infrastructural resilience of the grid, and the rates of service loss and restoration, duration of interruption, and damage time of the transmission lines were quantified. Finally, the bus system was hardened using a nuclear power plant, which supplied the base load of the grid. The same failure scenario was applied, and the metrics were calculated and compared to those of the base case.

Publication Date

12-21-2023

Document Type

Master's Project

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Advisor

Abdulla Ismail

Campus

RIT Dubai

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