Chinese Journal of Computational Physics ›› 2022, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 361-370.DOI: 10.19596/j.cnki.1001-246x.8398

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Power System Critical Node Identification Based on Subnetwork Partition

Yanli ZOU(), Shuyi TAN, Xinyan LIU, Shaoze ZHANG, Haoqian LI   

  1. School of Electronic Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China
  • Received:2021-05-14 Online:2022-05-25 Published:2022-09-02

Abstract:

With power grid topology and power flow tracing technology, a method for identifying key nodes of a power grid based on subnet division is proposed. Firstly, generator nodes are divided into subsets according to their neighborhood information and power. Then, with power flow tracking technology, a coefficient distribution matrix of the power grid is obtained. Next, a load node is divided into a generator node subset which offer the maximum power according to the coefficient distribution matrix. A multi-attribute decision-making method is used to sort the nodes in each subnet. The structure coefficient of subnet is further improved and calculated an index for measuring importance of the subnet. According to the importance of subnets, a specific proportion of candidate key nodes are extracted from each subnet. These candidate nodes are reordered with multi-attribute decision-making method to obtain the final ranking of the key nodes. Taking IEEE14, IEEE57 and IEEE118-node systems as examples, subnet division results and ranking results of important nodes of standard networks are obtained. Our method, PageRank method and multi-attribute decision-making method are used to sort key nodes, respectively. Cascade fault performance experiment and network efficiency performance are carried out on the key nodes with top ranking. It shows that the key nodes selected by the proposed algorithm have the greatest impact on propagation performance of the entire network.

Key words: power grid, subnet division, power flow tracing technology, identification of key nodes, cascading failure