“…It exploits the fact that any imbalance induces variations of the common frequency throughout the entire network (Kundur, 1994), so all the network's units participating in primary frequency control can sense even remote unknown power imbalances through measured frequency deviations and adapt their effort to correct them. Since the efforts ✩ The material in this paper was partially presented at the 17th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC-11), August 22-26, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden of these units sum up, large synchronous areas can achieve economies of scale (Billinton & Chowdhury, 1988;Rau, Necsulescu, Schenk, & Misra, 1983). This has been one of the motivations for e.g.…”