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. 2016 Oct 7;6:34797. doi: 10.1038/srep34797

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German transmission network after targeted removal of 8 transmission lines according to their betweenness centrality. Removed links are in red, active ones in green. The three components of the grid would make up a self-sustainable island if we had 40% of renewable sources (roughly twice the actual amount of ~20%), assuming that the fluctuations can be controlled. The figure has been produced using the QGIS software⁵³.