Study on the structural complexity of large scale power grids

Author(s):  
Bo Chen ◽  
Jinli Zhao ◽  
Lulu Qiu ◽  
Peng Li
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Kaiser ◽  
Vito Latora ◽  
Dirk Witthaut

AbstractIn our daily lives, we rely on the proper functioning of supply networks, from power grids to water transmission systems. A single failure in these critical infrastructures can lead to a complete collapse through a cascading failure mechanism. Counteracting strategies are thus heavily sought after. In this article, we introduce a general framework to analyse the spreading of failures in complex networks and demostrate that not only decreasing but also increasing the connectivity of the network can be an effective method to contain damages. We rigorously prove the existence of certain subgraphs, called network isolators, that can completely inhibit any failure spreading, and we show how to create such isolators in synthetic and real-world networks. The addition of selected links can thus prevent large scale outages as demonstrated for power transmission grids.


2014 ◽  
Vol 986-987 ◽  
pp. 622-629
Author(s):  
Tian Long Shao ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Xu Nan Zhao

As a kind of renewable clean energy, the constant access of wind power to power grids is bound to have a great impact on the power system. Based on the grid structure in Fuxin, this paper will state the difficulty of peak regulation and the matter of wasting wind power caused by the large-scale wind power integration and put forward some reasonable methods for using the wasting wind power in the heating in winter. The relevant results indicate that capacity of local consumption of wasting wind power can be improved. Under the circumstances, it can be conductive to solve the problem of wasting wind power results from the difficulty of peak regulation as well as inspire the power system planners.


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 439-446
Author(s):  
HAOHANG SU ◽  
YIMEN ZHANG ◽  
YUMING ZHANG ◽  
JINCAI MAN

An improved method is proposed based on compressed and Krylov-subspace iterative approaches to perform efficient static and transient simulations for large-scale power grid circuits. It is implemented with CG and BiCGStab algorithms and an excellent result has been obtained. Extensive experimental results on large-scale power grid circuits show that the present method is over 200 times faster than SPICE3 and around 10–20 times faster than ICCG method in transient simulations. Furthermore, the presented algorithm saves the memory usage over 95% of SPICE3 and 75% of ICCG method, respectively while the accuracy is not compromised.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1994
Author(s):  
Yanchen Liu ◽  
Minfang Peng ◽  
Xingle Gao ◽  
Haiyan Zhang

The prevention of cascading failures and large-scale power outages of power grids by identifying weak links has become one of the key topics in power systems research. In this paper, a vulnerability radius index is proposed to identify the initial fault, and a fault chain model of cascading failure is developed with probabilistic attributes to identify the set of fault chains that have a significant impact on the safe and stable operation of power grids. On this basis, a method for evaluating the vulnerability of transmission lines based on a multi-criteria decision analysis is proposed, which can quickly identify critical transmission lines in the process of cascading failure. Finally, the proposed model and method for identifying vulnerable lines during the cascading failure process is demonstrated on the IEEE-118 bus system.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Leon ◽  
Maria Camila Ochoa ◽  
Alejandro Gutierrez

The origins of the electric industry can be traced back to the invention of the battery. However, Energy Storage Systems (ESS) have never been considered as a part of the electricity supply chain. Even though there has been an increase of government mandated storage investments in power grids, market driven investments are still lacking sustainable business models. Now, with the possibility that cost reductions of the technology make it viable for widespread utilization, multiple efforts have been devoted by the academia and industry to design its incorporation into electricity markets. A large majority of the proposals have been devoted to develop mechanisms for their incorporation in ancillary services markets or for arbitrage, considering storage as another market player, both still with little success in providing sustainable benefits to energy consumers and investors alike. In this paper, we demonstrate that Large Scale Energy Storage excels when incorporated as a service provider in electricity markets. Our proposal considers ESS as a grid resource, available to the ISO to achieve the optimal mix of resources in the day ahead dispatch. We demonstrate that in the Colombian system, a large ESS used in this manner may achieve high benefit-cost ratios. The results also indicate that current market designs need to evolve in order to take better advantage of energy storage and renewable energy resources.


Author(s):  
Alicia L. Jurek ◽  
Matthew C. Matusiak ◽  
Randa Embry Matusiak

Purpose The current research explores the structural elaboration of municipal American police organizations, specifically, the structural complexity of police organizations and its relationship to time. The purpose of this paper is to describe and test essential elements of the structural elaboration hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach The authors explore the structural elaboration hypothesis utilizing a sample of 219 large police departments across the USA. Data are drawn from multiple waves of the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics survey and are analyzed using tobit and OLS regression techniques. Findings While there is some evidence that police departments are becoming more elaborate, little evidence for the structural elaboration hypothesis as a function of time is found. Originality/value This project is the first to specifically explore the structural elaboration hypothesis across multiple time points. Additionally, results highlight structural trends across a panel of large American police organizations and provide potential explanations for changes. Suggestions for large-scale policing data collection are also provided.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwanghoon Pio Kim

In this paper, we propose an integrated approach for seamlessly and effectively providing the mining and the analyzing functionalities to redesigning work for very large-scale and massively parallel process models that are discovered from their enactment event logs. The integrated approach especially aims at analyzing not only their structural complexity and correctness but also their animation-based behavioral properness, and becomes concretized to a sophisticated analyzer. The core function of the analyzer is to discover a very large-scale and massively parallel process model from a process log dataset and to validate the structural complexity and the syntactical and behavioral properness of the discovered process model. Finally, this paper writes up the detailed description of the system architecture with its functional integration of process mining and process analyzing. More precisely, we excogitate a series of functional algorithms for extracting the structural constructs and for visualizing the behavioral properness of those discovered very large-scale and massively parallel process models. As experimental validation, we apply the proposed approach and analyzer to a couple of process enactment event log datasets available on the website of the 4TU.Centre for Research Data.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Li ◽  
Xiaojie Wang ◽  
Chengli Zhao ◽  
Xue Zhang ◽  
Dongyun Yi

Locating the source that undergoes a diffusion-like process is a fundamental and challenging problem in complex network, which can help inhibit the outbreak of epidemics among humans, suppress the spread of rumors on the Internet, prevent cascading failures of power grids, etc. However, our ability to accurately locate the diffusion source is strictly limited by incomplete information of nodes and inevitable randomness of diffusion process. In this paper, we propose an efficient optimization approach via maximum likelihood estimation to locate the diffusion source in complex networks with limited observations. By modeling the informed times of the observers, we derive an optimal source localization solution for arbitrary trees and then extend it to general graphs via proper approximations. The numerical analyses on synthetic networks and real networks all indicate that our method is superior to several benchmark methods in terms of the average localization accuracy, high-precision localization and approximate area localization. In addition, low computational cost enables our method to be widely applied for the source localization problem in large-scale networks. We believe that our work can provide valuable insights on the interplay between information diffusion and source localization in complex networks.


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