Approach for studying the impact of communication failures on power grid

摘要

In smart grid, a strong communication network plays a very important role, which makes the power grid more controllable and observable. It is a very tough task to study the mutual impact between these two systems due to their different characteristics. This paper proposes a generic and systematic approach for quantitatively studying the impact of communication failures on power grid's measurement and control functions. And an example is used to illustrate how to apply the approach in studying the impact of communication failure on a stability control system.