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Efficient global assessment of power system resilience under uncertainty using an enhanced polynomial chaos expansion method

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VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2025
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicPower System Optimization and Stability
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolynomial chaosResilience (materials science)Electric power systemPolynomialControl theory (sociology)CHAOS (operating system)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Climate change has resulted in increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as blizzards and wind storms.These extreme events pose a severe risk to the safe and secure operation of power systems, which has motivated recent interest in assessing power system resilience to extreme weather.The random nature of these extreme events and the corresponding power system failures mandates resilience assessment in probabilistic frameworks.However, state-of-the-art probabilistic methods struggle to efficiently assess resilience across all possible failure scenarios (i.e., globally), presenting a significant barrier to practical resilience assessment.To overcome this, this thesis develops a novel method leveraging polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) models to efficiently assess power system resilience.Firstly, this thesis models a power system's response to an extreme weather event.An efficient resilience event model capable of modelling many failure mechanisms is presented: applying fragility curves to model component failures and the AC cascading failure model to simulate the system's response.The developed model is then applied to assess power system resilience.To improve computational efficiency and globally assess resilience, this thesis leverages PCE models, which approximate the system's resilience with a polynomial function computed from a small set of system response samples.However, issues in PCE stability (i.e., the reliable computation of PCE models with different sample sets) pose a significant barrier to this method's applicability.Therefore, this thesis proposes a novel experiment design method, the Maximin-Latin hypercube sampling (MmLHS) method, that improves stability by uniformly selecting the samples used in PCE model computation.A PCE-based method for resilience assessment is then proposed that leverages MmLHS to construct stable PCE models and efficiently assess resilience.To validate the proposed method case studies are performed on the IEEE 39-Bus and 118-Bus systems using real-world data.Numerical studies on the IEEE 39-Bus system demonstrate the improved stability obtained by the MmLHS method while further studies on the IEEE 39-Bus and 118-Bus systems demonstrate the proposed PCE-based method's accuracy and efficiency and showcase its application to Scaled-MAD of a random variable.T V (P, Q) Total variation between PDFs P and Q. Polynomial Chaos ExpansionsTo efficiently assess the global probabilistic behaviour of complex system's the polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) method [29] has gained popularity.This method, first proposed by Wiener in 1938 [30], approximates a model's response using a polynomial function computed from a small number of model evaluations.The polynomial function's (hereafter "PCE model ") coefficients can be used to directly compute mean and variance, and the PCE model

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.058
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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