Performance and reliability of electrical power grids under cascading failures

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1410-1419

  Chang, Liang ^a   Wu, Zhigang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cascading failure; Infrastructure; Performance; Power grids; State transition graph; System reliability

Indexed keywords

CASCADING FAILURES; INFRASTRUCTURE; PERFORMANCE; POWER GRIDS; STATE TRANSITION GRAPHS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RATING; RELIABILITY;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 80051544471     PISSN: 01420615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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