During extreme storms, the failure of a small fraction of transmission lines can trigger a cascade of outages in a power grid. Going beyond static approaches, it is now demonstrated that resolving the spatio-temporal interactions between the storm and the power grid is key to identifying these critical lines.
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This is a summary of: Stürmer, J. et al. Increasing the resilience of the Texas power grid against extreme storms by hardening critical lines. Nat. Energy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-023-01434-1 (2024).
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Identifying the power-grid bottlenecks responsible for cascading failures during extreme storms. Nat Energy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01499-6
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