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Power engineering

large blackouts that spread through chains of failures, with sizes following a power law that suggests the grid operates near a critical point.

In power engineering, cascading blackout refers to large blackouts that spread through chains of failures, with sizes following a power law that suggests the grid operates near a critical point. This meaning comes from Dobson (2007) in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.[1]

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References

Dobson, I., Carreras, B. A., Lynch, V. E., & Newman, D. E. (2007). Complex systems analysis of series of blackouts: Cascading failure, critical points, and self-organization. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2737822

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