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ArticleNature communications2018

Dynamically induced cascading failures in power grids.

Benjamin Schäfer, Dirk Witthaut, Marc Timme, Vito Latora

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 25 papers.

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4 authors.

Benjamin SchäferChair for Network Dynamics, Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany. benjamin.schaefer@tu-dresden.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1607-9748
Dirk WitthautForschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Energy and Climate Research - Systems Analysis and Technology Evaluation (IEK-STE), 52428, Jülich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3623-5341
Marc TimmeChair for Network Dynamics, Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany. marc.timme@tu-dresden.de.
Vito LatoraSchool of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK. v.latora@qmul.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0984-8038

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reliable functioning of infrastructure networks is essential for our modern society. Cascading failures are the cause of most large-scale network outages. Although cascading failures often exhibit dynamical transients, the modeling of cascades has so far mainly focused on the analysis of sequences of steady states. In this article, we focus on electrical transmission networks and introduce a framework that takes into account both the event-based nature of cascades and the essentials of the network dynamics. We find that transients of the order of seconds in the flows of a power grid play a crucial role in the emergence of collective behaviors. We finally propose a forecasting method to identify critical lines and components in advance or during operation. Overall, our work highlights the relevance of dynamically induced failures on the synchronization dynamics of national power grids of different European countries and provides methods to predict and model cascading failures.

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