Preventing Cascading Failures in Power Grids

Preventing Cascading Failures in Power Grids

Power grids around the world are decentralizing at a rapid pace as renewable energy production vastly reshapes where electricity is produced. This will require a massive systems overhaul in the way that our power grids are designed, maintained, and protected. Instead of maintaining grid management at a central hub, more and more software and hardware developments are taking place at the grid edge. According to Wood Macenzie, ‘grid edge’ is “an u…

Preventing Cascading Failures in Power Grids Through Decentralized Management: The Dual Role of AI

It is an oxy moronic situation. AI is driving electricity demand, and one solution people are looking to is decentralizing grids, and even microgrids. How will AI help utilities and people plan for the new grid? Life without subsidies and decentralized? The modern power grid, a sprawling network of interconnected systems, is both a marvel of engineering and a potential house of cards. Cascading failures—where a single fault triggers a domino eff…