This pioneering volume has been updated and enriched to reflect the state-of-the-art in blackout prediction and prevention. It documents and explains background and algorithmic aspects of the most successful steady-state, transient and voltage stability solutions available today in real-time. It also describes new, cutting-edge stability applications of synchrophasor technology, and captures industry acceptance of metrics and visualization tools that quantify and monitor the distance to instability. Expert contributors review a broad spectrum of additionally available techniques, such as trajectory sensitivities, ensuring this volume remains the definitive resource for industry practitioners and academic researchers in this critical area of power system operations.

Relationships between Power System Dynamic Equilibrium, Load-Flow, and Operating Point Stability.- Fast Assessment of the Distance to Stability.- Accuracy Testing and Real-Time Implementation of Dimo's Stability Analysis Technique.- Emergency Monitoring and Corrective Control of Voltage Instability.- On-Line Voltage Security Assessment.- Critical Issues for Successful On-Line Security Assessment.- The Case for Using Wide-Area Control Techniques to Improve the Reliability of the Electric Power Grid.- Preventive and Emergency Control of Power Systems.- Sensitivity Analysis of Dynamic Stability Indicators in Power Systems.- Model Predictive Control of Electric Power Systems under Emergency Conditions.- The Role of Power System Visualization in Enhancing Power System Security.- Comprehensive approach to Real-Time Stability.- Transient Stability in Real-Time Implementations.