Load Curtailment Estimation in Response to Extreme Events
For power system operators, this work provides a method to estimate load curtailment during extreme events, but it is incremental as it applies existing SVM to a specific problem without novel methodological contributions.
This paper proposes a machine learning model using Support Vector Machine (SVM) to predict grid component outages during hurricanes, integrated with a load curtailment minimization model to estimate nodal load curtailments. Tested on the IEEE 30-bus system, the model demonstrates effectiveness across various hurricane scenarios.
A machine learning model is proposed in this paper to help estimate potential nodal load curtailment in response to an extreme event. This is performed through identifying which grid components will fail as a result of an extreme event, and consequently, which parts of the power system will encounter a supply interruption. The proposed model to predict component outages is based on a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model. This model considers the category and the path of historical hurricanes, as the selected extreme event in this paper, and accordingly trains the SVM. Once trained, the model is capable of classifying the grid components into two categories of outage and operational in response to imminent hurricanes. The obtained component outages are then integrated into a load curtailment minimization model to estimate the nodal load curtailments. The merits and the effectiveness of the proposed models are demonstrated using the standard IEEE 30-bus system based on various hurricane path/intensity scenarios.