89816 20210902121633.0 doi 10.1016/j.ress.2020.106950 sideral 117563 ART-2020-117563 eng Beyza, Jesus Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3992-4393 Security assessment of cross-border electricity interconnections 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Cross-border electricity interconnections are important for ensuring energy exchange and addressing undesirable events such as power outages and blackouts. This paper assesses the performance of interconnection lines by measuring their impacts on the main reliability and vulnerability indicators of interconnected power systems. The reliability study is performed using the sequential Monte Carlo simulation technique, while the vulnerability assessment is carried out by proposing a cascading failures methodology. The conclusions obtained show that highly connected infrastructures have simultaneously high reliability and limited robustness, which suggests that both approaches show different operational characteristics of the power system. Nevertheless, an appropriate increase in the number and capacity of the interconnections can help to improve both security parameters of the power supply. Seven case studies are performed based on the IEEE RTS-96 test system. The results can be used to help transmission system operators better understand the behaviour and performance of electrical networks. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ENE2016-77172-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 6.188 2020 OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 11 / 84 = 0.131 2020 Q1 T1 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL 11 / 49 = 0.224 2020 Q1 T1 1.76 2020 Applied Mathematics 2020 Q1 Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 2020 Q1 Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2020 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Gil, Pablo Masera, Marcelo Yusta, Jose M. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3174-9703 5009 535 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ingeniería Eléctrica Área Ingeniería Eléctrica 201 (2020), 106950 [12 pp.] Reliab. eng. syst. saf. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 0951-8320 1784903 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/89816/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 64864 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/89816/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:89816 articulos driver 2021-09-02-08:54:28 ARTICLE