Evidence for self-organized criticality in a time series of electric power system blackouts

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1733-1740

  Carreras, Benjamin A ^a   Newman, David E ^b   Dobson, Ian ^c   Poole, A Bruce ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM BLACKOUTS; POWER SYSTEM SECURITY; RISK ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 4744344337     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2004.834513     Document Type: Article

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