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The Electric Transmission System as a “Network”

Here’s an interesting paper I found while doing research on electric transmission system optimization:

http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/analysispaper/transmiss.html

It concerns inter-regional power power trading among four regions in the northeastern United States, and the potential effects of this on electricity costs and trade level variation by region. From a networking perspective, its interesting to note how their model of the transmission systems can be related to a communications network, and how the same optimization tools can be used in both cases (subject to different constraints, of course).