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.

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Power System Dynamic Equilibrium, Power-Flow, and Steady-State Stability.- Fast Computation of the Steady-State Stability Limit.- Practical Aspects of Steady-State Stability Assessment in Real-Time.- Composite Approach for the Early Detection, Assessment and Visualization of the Risk of Instability in the Control of Smart Transmission Grids.- Power System Transient Stability Preventive and Emergency Control.- Online Dynamic Security Assessment.- Practical Issues for Implementation of Online Dynamic Security Assessment Systems.- The case for Using Wide-Area Monitoring and Control to Improve the Resilience and Capacity of the Electronic Power Grid.- Emergency Monitoring and Corrective Control of Voltage Instability.- Online Voltage Security Assessment.- Trajectory Sensitivity Model Predictive Real-Time Control Analysis for Dynamic Security Assessment and Other Applications in Power Systems.- The Role of Power System Visualization in Enhancing Power System Security.