Exploring complex systems aspects of blackout risk and mitigation

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 134-143

  Newman, David E ^a   Carreras, Benjamin A ^b   Lynch, Vickie E ^c   Dobson, Ian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b BACV Solutions Inc   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackout risk; cascading failure; complex system; electric power transmission system; infrastructure; power law; self organized criticality

Indexed keywords

BLACKOUT RISK; CASCADING FAILURE; COMPLEX SYSTEM; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; INFRASTRUCTURE; POWER LAW; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRICITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79952196431     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2011.2104711     Document Type: Article

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