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Predicting power grid failure

Simplifying Complexity

CHAPTER

Power Laws and Blackouts in Power Grids

This chapter explores the relationship between power laws and blackouts in power grids, discussing the influence graph structure, physical topology, and universality across different countries. It also analyzes the transmission grid in the Western and Eastern United States, highlighting the occurrence of power law-sized blackouts and attributing the Texas blackouts in 2021 to interconnected system failures.

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