The traditional Power Grid has been designed in a hierarchical fashion, with Energy pushed from the large scale production facilities towards the end users. But with the increasing availability of micro and medium scale generating facilities, the situation is changing. Many end users can now produce energy and share it over the Power Grid. Naturally, end users need to have incentives to do so and might want to be able to act in an open decentralized energy market. In the present work, we offer a novel analysis of the Medium and Low Voltage Power Grids of the North Netherlands using statistical tools from the Complex Network Analysis field. We use a weighted model based on actual Grid data and propose a set of statistical measures to evaluate the adequacy of the current infrastructure for a decentralized energy market. Further, we use the insight gained by the analysis to propose parameters that tie the statistical topological measures to economic factors that might influence the attractiveness to the end users in participating in such a decentralized energy market, thus identifying what are the important topological parameters to work on to facilitate such open decentralized markets.
Crucitti @cite_44 analyse the Italian from a topological perspective. This work is particularly relevant for the concept of efficiency that is used to understand the performance of the network. This metric is evaluated as a function of the tolerance of load both for edges and nodes. It is interesting that some sort of weights are used for this analysis: a capacity measure is associated with nodes while weight is associated with edges based on residual capacity of nodes. In this article too, some strategies of failure simulation are taken into account (random and betweenness-based removal). However, the size of the sample analysed is small compared to other works and the type of weight attributed to edges is not related to any physical quantity (e.g., lines resistance), but is only related to topological betweenness.
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Large-scale blackouts are an intrinsic drawback of electric power transmission grids. Here we analyze the structural vulnerability of the Italian GRTN power grid by using a model for cascading failures recently proposed in (Phys. Rev. E 69 (2004)).