Cognitive Flexibility of Power Grid Operator and Decision Making in Extreme Events

The complexity and vulnerability of the bulk power system are well known. Among all the factors that are important for maintaining the continuity and security of the power system, the importance of the power system operator lies at the top in the hierarchy. It is important to ascertain that the operator has the critical tools, knowledge, access to training, cognitive and technical skills and the experience for extreme contingency condition that may arise. In this paper, decision making ability of power system operators in extreme events with and without advanced power system tools has been analyzed by relating to their measured cognitive flexibility.