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Demand response is a key solution in smart grid to address the ever-increasing peak energy consumption. With multiple utility companies, users will decide from which utility company to buy electricity and how much to buy. Consequently, how to devise distributed real-time demand response in the multiseller̈Cmultibuyer environment emerges as a critical problem in future smart grid. In this paper, we...
This paper proposes a real-time data compression and adapted protocol technique for wide-area measurement systems (WAMS). The compression algorithm combines exception compression (EC) with swing door trending (SDT) compression. The compression logic is designed to perform this algorithm in real time. Selection of compression parameters and data reconstruction are presented. An adapted protocol is...
Time-shiftable loads have recently received an increasing attention due to their role in creating load flexibility and enhancing demand response and peak-load shaving programs. In this paper, we seek to answer the following question: How can a time-shiftable load, that itself may comprise of several smaller time-shiftable subloads, submit its demand bids to the day-ahead and real-time markets so as...
A new internal fault protection scheme for synchronous generators, based on Fuzzy inference system, is proposed. The proposed method is developed and tested by using oscillogram dataset gathered from fault simulations and experiments conducted on real-life synchronous generators. Data-mining is used to support the choice of the most relevant variables to identify synchronous generator internal faults...
The task of autonomous power sharing in a micro-grid is usually achieved by decentralized droop control on individual interface power converters, which may suffer from the dependence on output line impedances. Inaccurate reactive power sharing will occur under strongly non-uniform line impedances. Due to inherently distributed and heterogeneous nature of the micro-grid, it becomes an ideal platform...
With the recent development of advanced metering infrastructure, real-time pricing (RTP) scheme is anticipated to be introduced in future retail electricity market. This paper proposes an algorithm for a home energy management scheduler (HEMS) to reduce the cost of energy consumption using RTP. The proposed algorithm works in three subsequent phases namely realtime monitoring (RTM), stochastic scheduling...
FERC Order 755 requires each RTO/ISO to use market-based mechanisms to select and compensate frequency regulation resources based on a two-part payment methodology, i.e., a capacity payment to keep the capacity in reserve and a performance payment to reflect the amount of work each resource performs in real-time in response to the system operator's dispatch signal. This paper discusses how MISO enhanced...
In this paper, a real-time energy management algorithm (RTEMA) for a grid-connected charging park in an industrial/commercial workplace is developed. The charging park under study involves plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with different sizes and battery ratings as well as a photovoltaic (PV) system. Statistical and forecasting models were developed as components in the developed RTEMA to...
Recent years have witnessed the significant growth in electricity consumption. The emerging smart grid aims to address the ever-increasing load through appropriate scheduling, i.e., to shift the energy demand from peak to off-peak periods by pricing tariffs as incentives. Under the real-time pricing environment, due to the uncertainty of future prices, load scheduling is formulated as an optimization...
In this paper smart operation of micro energy hub is presented. Energy hub system consists of certain energy hubs and interconnectors that are coordinated by energy hub system operator. An energy hub contains several converters and storages to serve demanded services in most efficient manner from available energy carriers. In this paper, the flexibility of energy delivery point is enhanced using micro...
The use of wind energy sources for supplying electric vehicle (EV) loads is a challenge for electricity market operators due to their inherent uncertainty in the current market architecture. Coordinated energy exchange between EV load aggregators and wind generating companies (WGenCOs) can potentially increase the competitiveness of WGenCOs and EV-load customers in the energy market. This paper proposes...
This paper presents the Hardware in the Loop (HiL) validation of a control method to regulate the voltage of the DC Bus fed by Distributed Generation (DG) units in an islanded MVDC microgrid. The disturbance based control, employs a decentralized Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control of individual generator side converters to be executed locally, and which does not need remote measurements of loads...
The objective of this paper is to present a real-time co-simulation platform for analyzing electric power grid operation, taking into account integrated communication systems. This paper discusses how a co-simulation platform can be set up using OPNET and OPAL-RT as communication and power system simulators, respectively. A simplified distribution automation case study is demonstrated to show how...
A regime shift occurs when a dynamical system's state shifts from a nominal equilibrium to an alternative equilibrium. This concept is often used to describe the collapse of ecological systems, but it also appears in many engineering systems; most notably in the voltage collapse of power systems. This paper uses an information theoretic index known as the Fisher Information (FI) as a real-time statistical...
This work is part of a project that aims to demonstrate the concept of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) with an operational fleet. A fleet of electric vehicles is operated with the objective of providing regulation services to the grid. The focus of this paper is on the real-time operation of the fleet. Specifically, given an optimal trajectory for the vehicle state of charge, schemes for distributing the regulation...
As the penetration of wind generation increases, the effects of ramping events on power system security become serious. In order to improve the output characteristics of wind generation, wind farms coordination control based on contribution index is proposed to ensure wind farms to respond to scheduling plan of virtual power plant (VPP). Based on the power regulation amount of wind farms, regulation...
Solar is the fastest growing source of renewable electricity in the U.S. The anticipated PV proliferation brings integration challenges on system volt/var performance at the utility scale. One of the greatest challenges is to maintain desirable feeder voltages in utility distribution networks. The intermittent PV generation causes more frequent operation of volt/var control (VVC) devices to alleviate...
Smart grid has become the most complicated interconnected system in human society. With the advanced sensor infrastructure, the smart grid will continuously generate unprecedented data volume. This paper gives an overview discussion of the big data management & analysis in the smart grid. Firstly, this paper identifies the basic requirements of the big data analysis in the smart grid. Secondly,...
Continued deployment of renewable and distributed energy resources is fundamentally changing the way that electric distribution systems are controlled and operated; more sophisticated active system control and greater situational awareness are needed. Real-time measurements and distribution system state estimation (DSSE) techniques enable more sophisticated system control and, when combined with visualization...
A hybrid simulation/measurement-based framework for online dynamic security assessment (DSA) is proposed in this work. It combines the strengths and features of simulation-based and measurement-based approaches to develop a tool that integrates the results and provides real-time situational awareness on available operating margins against major stability problems. High performance computing capability...
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