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_33 analyse the of Italy, France and Spain to detect the most critical lines and propose solutions to address their vulnerabilities. This work has some very valuable aspects such as the comparison of the Grids of three different countries (i.e., Italy, France and Spain), the identification of the most vulnerable edges, the damage provoked by an attack and possible improvements based on the efficiency metric. The sample used is considerably small; in addition there is no use of weights to characterize the edges. Thus it is not possible to discover which is the weight of the most critical edges identified and if there is a correlation with the unweighted analysis.
@cite_33
2094343838
Electrical power grids are among the infrastructures that are attracting a great deal of attention because of their intrinsic criticality. Here we analyze the topological vulnerability and improvability of the spanish 400 kV, the french 400 kV and the italian 380 kV power transmission grids. For each network we detect the most critical lines and suggest how to improve the connectivity.