Study of cascade failures of power grids

• Main Author: Ng, Jason Wei Long.
• Other Authors: Chong Han Joo Peter
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electric power::Production, transmission and distribution
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53272
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The vulnerability of power grid is a key issue with large blackouts, causing power supply to be halted for millions. The complexity of power grid together with the excessive number of components made it difficult to be modeled. Complex networks have been the recent model that researchers adopted so...