The Smart Grid, regarded as the next generation power grid, uses two-way flows of
electricity and information to create a widely distributed automated energy delivery network …

The failure of a power system as a critical infrastructure causes considerable damage to
society. Hence, the vulnerabilities of such facilities should be minimized to cope with several …

Risk assessment must evolve for addressing the existing and future challenges, and
considering the new systems and innovations that have already arrived in our lives and that …

The objective of this paper is to provide a systematic view on the problem of vulnerability
and risk analysis of critical infrastructures. Reflections are made on the inherent complexities …

Cascading outages can cause large blackouts, and a variety of methods are emerging to
study this challenging topic. The Task Force on Understanding, Prediction, Mitigation, and …

The modeling of cascading failure in power systems is difficult because of the many different
mechanisms involved; no single model captures all of these mechanisms. Understanding …

Synchrophasors are time-synchronized electrical measurements that represent both the
magnitude and phase angle of the electrical sinusoids. Synchrophasors are measured by …

Using data from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) for 1984–2006, we
find several trends. We find that the frequency of large blackouts in the United States has not …

When the modern electrical infrastructure is undergoing a migration to the Smart Grid,
vulnerability and security concerns have also been raised regarding the cascading failure …

A smart grid (SG), considered as a future electricity grid, utilizes bidirectional electricity and
information flow to establish automated and widely distributed power generation. The SG …