Assessing European power grid reliability by means of topological measures

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2009, Pages 515-525

  Rosas Casals, M ^a,b   Corominas Murtra, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Power grid; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPLEXITY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 71649115033     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ESU090471     Document Type: Article

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