Critical Infrastructures at Risk Securing the European Electric Power System /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gheorghe, A.V (Editor), Masera, M. (Editor), Weijnen, M. (Editor), Vries, De L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 9
• Subjects: Engineering.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Probabilities.; Electric power production.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Power electronics.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Energy Technology.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

Europe witnessed in the last years a number of significant power contingencies. Some of them revealed the potentiality of vast impact on the welfare of society and triggered pressing questions on the reliability of electric power systems. Society has incorporated electricity as an inherent component...