Integrated Decision Algorithms for Auto-steered Electric Transmission System Asset Management

Electric power transmission systems are comprised of a large number of physical assets, including transmission lines, power transformers, and circuit breakers, that are capital-intensive, highly distributed, and may fail. Managing these assets under resource constraints requires equipment health monitoring integrated with system level decision-making to optimize a number of various operational, maintenance, and investment-related objectives. Industry processes to these ends have evolved ad-hoc over the years, and no systematic structures exist to coordinate the various decision problems. In this paper, we describe our progress in building a prototype structure for this purpose together with a software-hardware environment to deploy and test it. We particularly focus on the decision algorithms and the Benders approach we have taken to solve them in an integrated fashion.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICCS
• Authors: James D. McCalley, Vasant Honavar, Sarah M. Ryan, William Q. Meeker, Daji Qiao, Ronald A. Roberts, Yuan Li, Jyotishman Pathak, Mujing Ye, Yili Hong
• Keywords: Constraints Requires Equipment, Electric Power Transmission Systems, ICCS 2007, Various Decision Problems