Cascading failures as long chains of events and outages are threats to reliable operations of power grids and can lead to catastrophic blackout with tremendous losses if not understood, prevented, or mitigated well. This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive presentation of emerging methods for risk assessment, modeling, and simulation of cascading failures in power grids. The methods are all supported by both theories and experimental tests using realistic power grid models and data and the contributors to this volume are leading scholars in the field. Specific topics covered include industrial criteria and practices against cascading failures, probabilistic analytics of power outage data and risks, quantitative influence and interaction models to understand failure propagation, and simulation of cascading failures using models of multiple time scales.   will provide comprehensive and in-depth coverage on state-of-the-art methods for all readers who are interested in cascading failures, and will inspire researchers and engineers to develop emerging and practical tools in the next decades.weiterlesen