Cascade failures and distributed generation in power grids

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-35

  Scala, Antonio ^a,b,c   Pahwa, Sakshi ^d   Scoglio, Caterina M ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^c LONDON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascading failures; DC power model; Distributed generation; First order transition

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CASCADE FAILURE; CASCADING FAILURES; DC POWER; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; POWER DEMANDS; POWER SOURCES; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SHARP TRANSITION;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 84922894963     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2015.067395     Document Type: Article

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