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Community consistency determines the stability transition window of power-grid nodes

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Community consistency determines the stability transition window of power-grid nodes
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The synchrony of electric power systems is important in order to maintain a stable electricity supply. Recently, the measure basin stability was introduced to quantify a node's ability to recover its synchronization when perturbed. In this work, we focus on how basin stability depends on the coupling strength between nodes. We use the Chilean power grid as a case study. In general, basin stability goes from zero to one as coupling strength increases. However, this transition does not happen at the same value for different nodes. By understanding the transition for individual nodes, we can further characterize their role in the power-transmission dynamics. We find that nodes with an exceptionally large transition window also have a low community consistency. In other words, they are hard to classify to one community when applying a community detection algorithm. This also gives an efficient way to identify nodes with a long transition window (which is computationally time consuming). Finally, to corroborate these results, we present a stylized example network with prescribed community structures that captures the mentioned characteristics of the basin stability transition and recreates our observations.
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Let's look at what Bayesian stability transition window is at first. A power grid is composed of power plants, substations, and transmission lines. A rotational motion of a generator is synchronized with that of other generators.
When a local site suddenly consumes or generates a large amount of electricity, it affects the rotational motion of a node. However, since the rotors are synchronized, the perturbation on a rotor can be observed by the synchronous interaction of one network.
As a result, rotors can recover the synchrony. Bayesian stability qualifies a node's ability to recover its synchronization when perturbed at a certain coupling strength. In general, Bayesian stability goes from 0 to 1 as coupling strength increases.
Now we obtain the transmission width ΔK that represents the width of the transition window for all nodes in a network individually. Likewise, in this study, we measure ΔK of all nodes in Chilean power grid.
Let's look at community consistency. A community is a subset that is more strongly connected within the group than to the rest of the network. Here, we have three communities.
Some community detection methods are non-deterministic and could also give a different community decomposition between different runs of the same algorithm. Let's see one more time.
A red node is assigned to a community with the same community members every time. The red node is very consistent. On the other hand, a green node frequently changes its community members at every runs of community detection. The green node is very inconsistent.
We define nodes classified to the same community as having high community consistency. In this study, we also measure community consistency of all nodes in the Chilean power grid.
We have studied the Bayesian stability transition window as a new metric for characterizing the contribution of a node to the stability of a power grid. By comparing the community consistency with the transition window, we find that the community consistency is a good predictor of the transition window or vice versa.