A Review of Mechanism of Large Cascading Failure Blackouts of Modern Power System

The mechanism of cascading failure blackout of modern power system is expounded. According to different starting points of modelling, the research on cascading failure blackout is divided into two branches: one of the branch is based on power flow calculation and stability analysis, in which modelling analysis and events mode search strategy based on complex system theory are presented; the other is based on the research of power system network topology, which mainly focuses on the small-world network model and the scale-free network model. Finally, some possible key technical problems to be solved for the research on cascading failure blackout of power system are pointed out.