Course Objectives:

The objectives of this course are to enable you to

1.  Use the language of power system reliability analysis;

2.  Develop analytical models for power system reliability analysis;

3.  Implement and use algorithms for power system reliability analysis

Topical coverage includes:

• probability basics,

• distributions used in reliability,

• repairable and non-repairable component reliability,

• series/parallel systems,

• Markov models,

• data and models for power system reliability evaluation,

• generation adequacy evaluation,

• composite system reliability evaluation,

• probabilistic security assessment,

• distribution system reliability evaluation,

• decision-making methods.