Structural vulnerability of the North American power grid

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2 2, 2004, Pages

  Albert, Réka ^a,b   Albert, István ^b   Nakarado, Gary L ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; ELECTRICITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POWER TRANSMISSION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERCONNECTIVITY; POWER GRID; STRUCTURAL VULNERABILITY;

POWER CONTROL;

EID: 42749103823     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.025103     Document Type: Article

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