The equal load-sharing model of cascade failures in power grids

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2016.06.034MaRDI QIDQ1619917zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Scala, Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini

Publication date 13 November 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01527

zbMATH Keywords

complex networksmean field modelspower grid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10)

Abstract: Electric power-systems are one of the most important critical infrastructures. In recent years, they have been exposed to extreme stress due to the increasing demand, the introduction of distributed renewable energy sources, and the development of extensive interconnections. We investigate the phenomenon of abrupt breakdown of an electric power-system under two scenarios: load growth (mimicking the ever-increasing customer demand) and power fluctuations (mimicking the effects of renewable sources). Our results indicate that increasing the system size causes breakdowns to become more abrupt; in fact, mapping the system to a solvable statistical-physics model indicates the occurrence of a first order transition in the large size limit. Such an enhancement for the systemic risk failures (black-outs) with increasing network size is an effect that should be considered in the current projects aiming to integrate national power-grids into "super-grids".

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