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1 Electricity transmission in deregulated markets, conference at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA USA December 2004 The Impact of Various Upgrade Strategies on the Long-Term Dynamics and Robustness of the Transmission Grid David E. Newman, Benjamin A. Carreras, Vickie E. Lynch and Ian Dobson Abstract— We use the OPA global complex systems model of I. INTRODUCTION the power transmission system to investigate the effect of a H E recent large scale disruptions to the power series of different network upgrade scenarios on the long time Ttransmission network [1] have once again focused a great dynamics and the probability of large cascading failures. The OPA model represents the power grid at the level of DC load deal of attention on improving the reliability of the network. flow and LP generation dispatch and represents blackouts However, because of the many different approaches that can be caused by randomly triggered cascading line outages and taken in moving toward the goal of improving the robustness overloads. This model represents the long-term, slow evolution of the Electric Power Transmission systems the understanding of the transmission grid by incorporating the effects of of the system wide effect of various improvement measures increasing demand and engineering responses to blackouts such a