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Flip the Switch: How Heterogeneous Agents Learn to Restore the Grid

A power outage is not one problem. It is a queue of smaller, uglier problems pretending to be one. Which switches can be closed? Which loads should come back first? Which distributed generators are available? Which lines will overheat if a local microgrid gets too ambitious? Which voltage limits will quietly make the elegant restoration plan unusable? In a control room, these questions arrive together, under time pressure, with the usual helpful accompaniment of incomplete information and operational consequences. ...

November 20, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina