Structural vulnerability analysis of electric power distribution grids

Title

Structural vulnerability analysis of electric power distribution grids

 Author

Koc, Y. (TU Delft System Engineering)
Raman, Abhishek (Apple Inc.)
Warnier, Martijn (TU Delft System Engineering) ORCID 0000-0002-4682-6882
Kumar, Tarun (IBM)

Date

2016

 Abstract

Power grid outages cause huge economical and societal costs. Disruptions in the power distribution grid are responsible for a significant fraction of electric power unavailability to customers. The impact of extreme weather conditions, continuously increasing demand, and the over-ageing of assets in the grid, deteriorates the safety of electric power delivery. Measures to analyse the robustness characteristics and to identify vulnerabilities of power grids are of utmost importance. This paper proposes a metric to quantitatively assess the robustness of power distribution grids from a topological point of view. Real-world data is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed metric as a tool to assess the criticality of assets in a distribution grid.


 Subject

Power distribution grid
topological robustness
structural vulnerability
metrics
complex networks
vulnerability assessment
electric power
power outages
critical infrastructure
power grids

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCIS.2016.081299

 Embargo date

2016-10-01

 ISSN

1475-3219

 Source

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 12 (4), 311-330

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2016 Y. Koc, Abhishek Raman, Martijn Warnier, Tarun Kumar
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