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Evidence for Self-Organized Criticality in a Time Series of Electric Power System Blackouts
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We analyze a 15-year time series of North American electric power transmission system blackouts for evidence of self-organized criticality (SOC). The probability distribution functions of various measures of blackout size have a power tail and rescaled range analysis of the time series shows moderate long-time correlations. Moreover, the same analysis applied to a time series from a sandpile model known to be self-organized critical gives results of the same form. Thus, the blackout data seem consistent with SOC. A qualitative explanation of the complex dynamics observed in electric power system blackouts is suggested.
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- Authors
- Carreras, B. A., Newman, D. E., Dobson, I., & Poole, A. B.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1733-1740
- ISSN
- 1057-7122 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2142702648
- Cited by
- 373
- References
- 26
- FWCI
- 9.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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