Case Study on Design Considerations for Wide-Area Transmission Grid Operation Visual Storytelling
Jessica L. Wert, Farnaz Safdarian, Thomas J. Overbye, Donald J. Morrow · 2022
Effectively communicating the behavior of an electric grid is an important pursuit in education, research, and industrial applications. This paper presents considerations for visual storytelling as a means for interpreting and communicating the behavior of the grid for simulations ranging in duration from seconds to days. By framing the issue of communicating the vast amounts of data associated with wide-area transmission grid operation as a story to tell, those tasked with presenting this data are encouraged to consider what makes an effective story and, in turn, create compelling and understandable stand-alone narratives. Demonstrations are presented for cases of various scales including a 37-bus case, a 2000-bus case, and a 24,000-bus case. Narrative techniques including non-linear time and alternative path storytelling are shown.