Distribution Grid Line Outage Identification with Unknown Pattern and Performance Guarantee

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07157v1
• Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 21:11:36 GMT
• Title: Distribution Grid Line Outage Identification with Unknown Pattern and Performance Guarantee
• Authors: Chenhan Xiao, Yizheng Liao, Yang Weng
• Abstract summary: Line outage identification in distribution grids is essential for sustainable grid operation. We propose a practical yet robust detection approach that utilizes only readily available voltage magnitudes.
• Score: 6.72184534513047
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Line outage identification in distribution grids is essential for sustainable grid operation. In this work, we propose a practical yet robust detection approach that utilizes only readily available voltage magnitudes, eliminating the need for costly phase angles or power flow data. Given the sensor data, many existing detection methods based on change-point detection require prior knowledge of outage patterns, which are unknown for real-world outage scenarios. To remove this impractical requirement, we propose a data-driven method to learn the parameters of the post-outage distribution through gradient descent. However, directly using gradient descent presents feasibility issues. To address this, we modify our approach by adding a Bregman divergence constraint to control the trajectory of the parameter updates, which eliminates the feasibility problems. As timely operation is the key nowadays, we prove that the optimal parameters can be learned with convergence guarantees via leveraging the statistical and physical properties of voltage data. We evaluate our approach using many representative distribution grids and real load profiles with 17 outage configurations. The results show that we can detect and localize the outage in a timely manner with only voltage magnitudes and without assuming a prior knowledge of outage patterns.

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