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Research Challenges for Design and Implementation of Wide-Area Control

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The 2003 Northeast blackout uncovered the vulnerability of the US power system, and manifested the urgent need for real-time state monitoring and control of the grid leading to the development of the wide-area measurement systems (WAMS) technology.

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Chakrabortty, A. (2019). Research Challenges for Design and Implementation of Wide-Area Control. In: Stoustrup, J., Annaswamy, A., Chakrabortty, A., Qu, Z. (eds) Smart Grid Control. Power Electronics and Power Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98310-3_10

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