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PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 396, Issue -, Pages 248-266Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.11.022
Keywords
Complex network; Network evolution; Power grid; Smart grid
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- Dutch National Research Council [647.000.004]
- University of Groningen
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The shift towards an energy grid dominated by prosumers (consumers and producers of energy) will inevitably have repercussions on the electricity distribution infrastructure. Today the grid is a hierarchical one delivering energy from large scale facilities to end-users. Tomorrow it will be a capillary infrastructure at the medium and low voltage levels that will support local energy trading among prosumers. We investigate how different network topologies and growth models facilitate a more efficient and reliable network, and how they can facilitate the emergence of a decentralized electricity market. We show how connectivity plays an important role in improving the properties of reliability and path-cost reduction. Our results indicate that a specific type of evolution balances best the ratio between increased connectivity and costs to achieve the network growth. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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