Sensitivity Analysis in Power Systems Reliability Evaluation

In this paper sensitivity analysis is performed for reliability evaluation of power systems. When examining the reliability of a system, it is useful to recognize how results change as component parameters are varied. This knowledge helps engineers to understand the impact of poor data, and gives insight on how reliability can be improved. For these reasons, a sensitivity analysis can be performed. Finally, a real network was used for testing the presented method.

Authors:

• A.R Alesaadi
• M. Nafar
• A.H. Gheisari

Keywords:

• sensitivity analysis
• reliability evaluation
• powersystems.

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