Criticality in a cascading failure blackout model

Dusko P. Nedic, Ian Dobson, Daniel S. Kirschen, Benjamin A. Carreras, Vickie E. Lynch
2006 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems  
We verify and examine criticality in a 1000 bus network with an AC blackout model that represents many of the interactions that occur in cascading failure. At the critical loading there is a sharp rise in the mean b l a c kout size and a power law probability distribution of blackout size that indicates a s i g n i f icant risk of large blackouts. Table 1: Approximate power law exponents at criticality for several cascading failure models.
doi:10.1016/j.ijepes.2006.03.006 fatcat:55lldniohrhcrhe6fyuolo6oh4