A decentralized power grid with many small wind generators, solar generators and other renewable energy transducers along with additional power lines may be less vulnerable to outages than a centralized power grid with a small number of large power plants, because self-synchronization occurs in the former. This finding was made through simulations performed by the research team led by M. Timme at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation. However, they found that it is important for grid stability that new lines are planned with care in order to avoid Braess’s Paradox.
Self-Organization Synchronization, the coordinated dynamics of many units to the same