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Emergent Failures and Cascades in Power Grids: A Statistical Physics Perspective

Nesti, Tommaso and Zocca, Alessandro and Zwart, Bert (2018) Emergent Failures and Cascades in Power Grids: A Statistical Physics Perspective. Physical Review Letters, 120 (25). Art. No. 258301. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.258301. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180621-100145040

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Abstract

We model power grids transporting electricity generated by intermittent renewable sources as complex networks, where line failures can emerge indirectly by noisy power input at the nodes. By combining concepts from statistical physics and the physics of power flows and taking weather correlations into account, we rank line failures according to their likelihood and establish the most likely way such failures occur and propagate. Our insights are mathematically rigorous in a small-noise limit and are validated with data from the German transmission grid.


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Zocca, Alessandro0000-0001-6585-4785
Additional Information:© 2018 American Physical Society. Received 25 July 2017; revised manuscript received 4 April 2018; published 21 June 2018. We thank the referees for many useful comments, in particular, for suggesting SciGRID. NWO Vici 639.033.413 and NWO Rubicon 680.50.1529 grants provided financial support. A. Z. acknowledges the support of Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech.
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Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)639.033.413
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)680.50.1529
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.258301
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