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IFAC-PapersOnLine, 18(48), p. 1-6

DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.11.001

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Stability Landscape of Power-Grid Synchronization**This work was supported by a Booster Award from the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN), the U.S. Army Research Office under Grant W911NF-15-1-0272, and the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-1057128.

Journal article published in 2015 by Takashi Nishikawa, Ferenc Molnar ORCID, Adilson E. Motter
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Frequency synchronization of power generators is a necessary condition for the operation of power-grid networks. The robustness of synchronous states to disturbances can be quantified in terms of their stability Here, applying a combination of perturbative analysis and numerical optimization techniques, we explore the landscape of synchronization stability in the space of generator parameters. We find that there are assignments of the parameter values that maximize stability beyond what has been found for identical parameters—the best previously known assignment. We suggest that this discovery may lead to a systematic approach for identifying parameter choices that can enhance synchronization of any given power grid.