Survey of High Impact Electric Power System Papers, 1975–2024

This paper discusses results of an informal survey intended to identify the most impactful electric power system papers from 1975 to 2024 written in English. The survey was shared primarily over email to a large number of electric power engineers asking them to identify up to three papers that they consider among the most impactful papers of the last 50 years. A total of 144 valid responses were received, identifying 101 unique publications. Of those publications, 18 received multiple votes. The paper receiving the most votes are in the areas of electricity markets, optimal power flow, synthetic electric grids, voltage phasor measurements, electric grid stability, and associated with the open-source power system analysis program. This paper is a follow-up to a 2000 paper identifying the top papers of the 20<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">th</sup> century.