pt. I. Overview -- pt. II. Things we need : the emergence of infrastructural crisis preparedness -- pt. III. Competition and security in a liberalized electricity market -- pt. IV. Lay people, experts, and electric power failures -- pt. V. Conclusions.

Considerable work has been done to understand and improve the resilience of individual infrastructure components. However, systems of components, or even systems of systems, are far less well understood. Cascade effects, where the loss of one infrastructure affects others, is a major source of...

Vor dem Hintergrund der Erhöhung des Preisdrucks und -wettbewerbs bei Grosskunden im Strommarkt stehen Energieversorger vor der Herausforderung, ihren Kunden wettbewerbsfähige und gleichzeitig kosten- und risikodeckende Preise anzubieten. Sandra Strohbücker untersucht, inwieweit...