Applying The Analytic Hierarchy Process to Rank Natural Threats to Power System Security

Power systems are contemporarily exposing to multiple threats and schematic changes per se. Always modest rather than adequate financial resources are allocated to justified and easy-to-adopt effective actions “against the most serious threat”. Selecting a limited number of natural threats to work with, authors described in this paper the principal steps to achieve a related threats’ ranking by using the analytical hierarchy process method. The key outcome is the knowledge provided to decision-makers to consolidate their actions of allotting the available financial resources to restrict possible effects of the most vigorous menace impact.