The unruly power grid.

The unruly power grid.

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Most experts agree that the major blackout that affected a large part of the North American upper Midwest and Northeast last August 14, 2003, was no anomaly and will definitely happen again. Records show that between 1984 and 2000, utilities logged 11 outages affecting more than 4000 megawatts, maki...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 41, 8(duplicate) (2004).
Main Author: Fairley, P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blackouts.
Chaos theory.
Mathematical modeling.
Nonlinear systems.
Power grid.
Power outages.
Power system dynamics.
Power-law frequency distributions.
Transient chaos.