Stochastic quantum models for the dynamics of power grids

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Hauptverfasser: Guichard, Pierrick, Retière, Nicolas, Mayou, Didier
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author Guichard, Pierrick
Retière, Nicolas
Mayou, Didier
author_facet Guichard, Pierrick
Retière, Nicolas
Mayou, Didier
contents While electric power grids play a key role in the decarbonization of society, it remains unclear how recent trends, such as the strong integration of renewable energies, can affect their stability. Power oscillation modes, which are key to the stability of the grid, are traditionally studied numerically with the conventional view-point of two regimes of extended (inter-area) or localized (intra-area) modes. In this article we introduce an analogy based on stochastic quantum models and demonstrate its applicability to power systems. We show from simple models that at low frequency the mean free path induced by disorder is inversely cubic in the frequency. This stems from the Courant-Fisher-Weyl theorem, which predicts a strong protection of the lowest frequency modes from disorder. As a consequence a power oscillation, induced by some local disruption of the grid, can propagate in a ballistic, diffusive or localised regime. In contrast with the conventional view-point, the existence of these three regimes is confirmed in a realistic model of the European power grid.
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spellingShingle Stochastic quantum models for the dynamics of power grids
Guichard, Pierrick
Retière, Nicolas
Mayou, Didier
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
While electric power grids play a key role in the decarbonization of society, it remains unclear how recent trends, such as the strong integration of renewable energies, can affect their stability. Power oscillation modes, which are key to the stability of the grid, are traditionally studied numerically with the conventional view-point of two regimes of extended (inter-area) or localized (intra-area) modes. In this article we introduce an analogy based on stochastic quantum models and demonstrate its applicability to power systems. We show from simple models that at low frequency the mean free path induced by disorder is inversely cubic in the frequency. This stems from the Courant-Fisher-Weyl theorem, which predicts a strong protection of the lowest frequency modes from disorder. As a consequence a power oscillation, induced by some local disruption of the grid, can propagate in a ballistic, diffusive or localised regime. In contrast with the conventional view-point, the existence of these three regimes is confirmed in a realistic model of the European power grid.
title Stochastic quantum models for the dynamics of power grids
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14921