Long tails from the distribution of 23 years of electrical disturbance data

2009 IEEE/PES Power Systems Conference and Exposition, PSCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cornforth, David ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complexity theory; Power distribution faults; Power system security; Time series

Indexed keywords

BREAKPOINT; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPLEXITY THEORY; DATA SETS; ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES; ELECTRICITY NETWORKS; LONG TAIL; POWER DISTRIBUTION FAULTS; POWER NETWORKS; POWER SYSTEM SECURITY; PUBLIC ACCESS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UPWARD TREND;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; POWER TRANSMISSION; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349189358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PSCE.2009.4840150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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