1.1.1 Electric power can be easily and efficiently transported to locations far from production centers and converted into desired forms (e.g., mechanical, thermal, light, or chemical). Therefore, electric power can satisfy the requirements of a variety of users (e.g., factories, houses, offices, public lighting, traction, agriculture), widely spread around the intended territory. On the other ...

Congestion and overloads in transmission lines always is one of the basic problems in the power system operation. Some of the consequences of this problem in the restructured power system are sudden price increasing in some areas, increase in market power and reduction in the competition in the market. FACTS devices as an efficient, powerful and economical means can have a key role in transmiss...

As the communication lines and switching hardware in disoibuted networks become much faster, a new trend of algorithms is needed to utilize it. Traditional broadcast algorithm send one packet along each communication line at a time, and propagate it by replicating and sending it on all the outgoing lines. This method does not use the high bandwidth or the switching hardware, and it overloads th...

With the worldwide deregulation of power system, fast line flows or real power (MW) security assessment has become a challenging task for which fast and accurate prediction of line flows is essential. Since last few years, limit violation of voltage and line loading has been responsible for undesirable incidents of power system collapse leading to partial or even complete blackouts. Accurate pr...