2020 PES GM 8/4 Panel Video: Analyzing dependent, common mode and cascading outages in standard utility data

Utilities now routinely collect detailed transmission line and transformer outage data, and this panel will discuss the rapidly emerging opportunities to extract more value from this data. Industry and academic experts will discuss the data processing to distinguish dependent, common mode, and cascading outages in the data and relate these to the qualified events database to utilize industry experience in analyzing these events. Stressed conditions such as bad weather will be considered. In addition to classifying single events, new patterns, models and opportunities in the statistics of outages will be presented. Possibilities for identifying critical components for multiple outages to enhance reliability and resilience will be discussed. The panelists are chosen from both industry and academia to define the state of the art in processing detailed outage data and outline the emerging opportunities, capabilities, and limitations of data-based approaches to analyzing and mitigating complicated multiple outages and cascading.