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Wide Area Control System for the Self-healing Grid (SHG)

Nov. 30, 2010

Electric Power Research Institute

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This use case describes how Self Healing Grid (SHG) applications can be used to evaluate power system behavior in real-time, prepare the power system for withstanding credible combinations of contingencies, prevent wide-area blackouts, and accommodate fast recovery from emergency state to normal state.

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