Reliability Evaluation and Weak Component Identification of ±500-kV HVDC Transmission Systems With Double-Circuit Lines on the Same Tower

In this paper, a reliability evaluation model and a bilevel unreliability allocation model for the +/- 500-kV HVdc transmission system with the double-circuit lines on the same tower (DCLST) are proposed. The reliability evaluation indices associated with this DCLST HVdc system are also defined. The reliability model is based on the characteristics of common starting point and terminal point structure and double-circuit HVdc coordination operation. And it is developed by integrating HVdc subsystem reliability models together. A multistate Markov model for the dc line (DCL) subsystem is built by considering the common-cause outage of four DCLs on the same tower. The reliability evaluation model of the ac filter (ACF) subsystem is constructed by considering the derated capacity operation state caused by ACF failures. On the other hand, a bilevel unreliability allocation model is constructed based on the proportion-allocation criterion. The allocation model is embedded into the reliability evaluation model so that all reliability indices can be allocated to each component after only one reliability evaluation calculation. As a result, the impact of each component on the system reliability and weak components of the system can be explicitly and unambiguously identified. An actual +/- 500-kV HVdc transmission project with the DCLST is used for case study to validate the effectiveness of the proposed models and indices.