Image showing the nodes and lines of a prototypical power grid (IMAGE)

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Image showing the nodes and lines of a prototypical power grid

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Image showing the nodes and lines of a prototypical power grid. It has a total of 400 nodes, of which 340 are nodes with only consumption, while the remaining 60 have consumption and generation. The nodes are interconnected by 617 lines.

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Image created by B. Carreras using Mathematica

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