Alarm messages for grid monitoring are an important way to supervise the operation of power grids. Since the use of alarm messages is increasing exponentially due to the continuous expansion of the scale of power grids, a processing method for alarm messages based on statistics is proposed in this study. Entropy theory in information theory is introduced into the calculation of information value in power-grid alarming. By means of multiple entropy definitions, an evaluation index system for information value is constructed. Based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), various alarm-message entropies are used as indices to comprehensively assess the information value and level of each alarm message. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed method. This study provides a new idea for the intelligent classification of alarm messages.
