CRITIC-Based Node Importance Evaluation in Skeleton-Network Reconfiguration of Power Grids

Seven centrality indexes are first presented for identifying important nodes with topological features of a complex network and electrical characteristics of a power system considered. Then, a criteria importance through intercriteria correlation-based multi-index decision-making method, in which entropy and the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient are integrated for reflecting the differences and correlations among multiple indexes, respectively, is presented to comprehensively identify the importance degrees of nodes in a given power grid. Finally, the proposed indexes and method are applied to actual Guangdong power system in China, and the results are compared with those attained by single-attribute and multi-attribute evaluation methods.