Designing reliable and resilient smart low-voltage grids

Ebisa Negeri, Fernando Kuipers and Nico Baken

International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2015, vol. 9, issue C, 24-37

Abstract: The electric power grid is a critical infrastructure that delivers electricity from power generation sources to consumers. At this time, renewable and distributed sources of electricity as well as new technologies that introduce large loads are significantly changing load profiles in low-voltage grids. This trend calls for reassessing the structure of low-voltage grids to examine if they can safely accommodate the new load profiles. The future smart grid will also rely on information and communications networks to support decentralized power distribution. The information and communications network nodes may depend on the grid for power supply, leading to bidirectional interdependence between the two types of networks that could affect the reliability of the power grid.

Keywords: Smart grid; Low-voltage grid; Topology; Complex network theory; Information and communications networks; Interdependent networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcip.2014.12.006

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