M. H. Imani, Mansour Taheri Andani, Hamid Taheri Andani
{"title":"Clustering of electricity price: an application to the Italian electricity market","authors":"M. H. Imani, Mansour Taheri Andani, Hamid Taheri Andani","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078632","url":null,"abstract":"Analyzing the electricity price plays a vital role in market players in deregulated electricity markets. In this regard, proper clustering methods are more beneficial. In this paper, a comparative study of three major clustering algorithms, including K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means, and Hierarchical algorithm on the Italian National Single Price, has been carried out. Moreover, the impact of various parameters of the algorithms on the clustering results has been analyzed. The performance of the clustering methods has been compared through several clustering validity indexes, including the Silhouette index, Calinski-Harabasz index, and Davies-Bouldin indicator. Two distinct patterns consisting of working days and weekends (or holidays) are observable in the particular dataset.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"16 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120963401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad Bashaireh, Duaa Obeidat, Abdullah A. Almehizia, L. Shalalfeh
{"title":"Optimal Placement of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: A Case Study in Jordan","authors":"Ahmad Bashaireh, Duaa Obeidat, Abdullah A. Almehizia, L. Shalalfeh","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078486","url":null,"abstract":"Several economic factors have contributed to an increased adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Jordan. Charging EVs constitutes a considerable electrical load, and hence, the rise in the number of EVs has a major effect on the electric distribution network. To address this, the charging infrastructure should be carefully studied, and an optimal implementation that minimizes the negative impact is crucial. In this paper, we develop a framework for optimal placement of EV charging stations using Particle Swarm optimization (PSO). The optimization problem maximizes the total EV charging capacity while minimizing transmission line and transformer loading and total power losses. This framework is implemented in MATLAB and DIgSILENT PowerFactory and applied to two cases in Jordan’s distribution network: an industrial area and a small town.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121199776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voltage Balancing Using Continuously Variable Series Reactor","authors":"Mohammadali Hayerikhiyavi, A. Dimitrovski","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078529","url":null,"abstract":"Continuously Variable Series Reactor (CVSR) is a device able to control its ac reactance by using the nonlinear B-H characteristic of the ferromagnetic core, shared by ac and dc windings. The dc bias magnetic flux generated by the dc winding can regulate the equivalent ac impedance to balance the three-phase voltages and diminish adverse effects of the imbalance on the distribution system operation and equipment. In this work, the Gyrator-Capacitor (G-C) approach is implemented to model the interaction between the magnetic and electric circuits. Results from simulation of voltage balancing by a CVSR via control of its bias dc circuits are presented. Multiple cases with different levels of imbalance of the load current have been studied. It is shown that the CVSR with proper control can maintain the load voltage within the acceptable range as the load randomly varies.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116296026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic Generation Control Under Single Time-Delay Attack","authors":"Ziran Gao, C. Moya, Jiankang Wang, M. Illindala","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078699","url":null,"abstract":"The challenges in cyber-security of the smart grid are rapidly escalating nowadays to impact the grid’s robustness and reliability. Time-Delay Attack (TDA) is one of the most common types of cyber-attack. We investigate the potential impact of TDA on Automatic Generation Control (AGC). We solve the Lyapunov-like matrix equation to show the minimum delay the attacker needs to inject to destabilize the AGC, providing a critical time-delay margin for the single TDA. The algorithm is validated in a four-area system, and the numeric results are illustrated.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"349 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121698292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Peer-to-Peer Reputation-based Mechanism to Enhance Microgrids’ Power Exchange Quality","authors":"A. Loni, Somayeh Asadi, M. Nazari-Heris","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078463","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, microgrids’ power exchanges have incurred structural and technological changes by utilization of renewable energy sources (RESs) and moving toward new power generation. The research proposed the collaborative power exchange mechanism/bed among microgrids without intermediaries in the distribution network aiming at reducing the operating costs and optimal schedule of RESs. This paper presents a decentralized and collaborative power exchange approach among microgrids, in which microgrids attempt to increase their individual payoffs by exchanging power in the coalitional groups. In addition to the decision variables of each coalition such as power loss, and amount of exchanged power, to have a logical and beneficial choice, picking partner(s) in each coalition should be based on a criterion such as reputation and reliability of partners/microgrids. To do so, this study takes advantage of cooperative game theory to (i) model the local power exchanges among microgrids and (ii) propose a peer-to-peer (P2P) reputation-based approach to evaluate the performance levels and effectiveness of microgrids’ power exchanges. Considering the microgrid’s reputation or its’ historical performance in previous interactions not only simplifies the cooperation of microgrids but also boosts the stability of the distribution grid. The obtained simulation results on three different IEEE 6-bus, 10-bus, and 14-bus microgrids indicate that considering the microgrids reputation in their exchanges lessened the costs caused by power outages and not full and on-time power delivery.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122328268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short-Term Dynamic Voltage Stability Status Estimation Using Multilayer Neural Networks","authors":"M. Massaoudi, S. Refaat, A. Ghrayeb, H. Abu-Rub","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078583","url":null,"abstract":"The power grid stability is significantly impacted by the exponentially growing electrical demand and the complex electrical systems modernization projects. This intensifies the urgent need and yet challenging Dynamic Security Assessment (DSA) to withstand high-probability severe contingencies. This paper proposes an effective machine-learning solution for Short-Term Voltage Stability (STVS) detection and classification. This work also addresses fault detection and classification into line faults or bus faults under different operating conditions as a supplementary warning system to boost power system protection and resiliency with fast remedial actions. The proposed approach combines three necessary steps for high accuracy: feature subset selection, hyperparameter optimization, and critical bus identification. The efficiency of the proposed forecasting model is assessed using the IEEE New England 39-bus test case with the CLOD composite model. The generated N-1 contingency test cases data from dynamic Power System Simulator/Engineering (PSS/E) time domain simulations for fault-induced voltage events include the measured post-disturbance voltage magnitude, angle, frequency, and active and reactive power trajectories of the system buses. Numerical results from the proposed classifier confirm a high classification accuracy of 94.24% in identifying the post-disturbance stability state. The proposed method will be outperforming traditional shallow learning-based approaches. Further, the robustness of classifiers is demonstrated by evaluating the computational time, accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130619967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reinforcement Learning for Intentional Islanding in Resilient Power Transmission Systems","authors":"Sobhan Badakhshan, R. Jacob, Binghui Li, J. Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078568","url":null,"abstract":"Intentional islanding is the process of identifying and deliberately decomposing the transmission network to form self-sustained islands from an endangered network during disruptions to improve resilience and security. Most existing intentional islanding models are offline resilience decision tools and hence do not provide outage responses in a timely manner. In this paper, a reinforcement learning (RL) based model for intentional islanding is developed, which offers real-time switching control, online deployability, and adaptability to varying system conditions. The intentional islanding process is formulated as a Markov decision process, where the optimal transmission switching policy is learned using the RL approach. The control policy is learned over an environment that encompasses a Power System Simulator for Engineering (PSS/E) model of the transmission network, facilitated by an interface to the standard openAI Gym framework. The proposed RL-based methodology aims to form stable and self-sustainable islands by ensuring voltage stability while reducing the power mismatch in the formed islands. A proximal policy optimization algorithm is designed, which is suitable for controlling the on/off status of the switches with multi-layer perceptron as value and actor networks. The effectiveness of the proposed framework in the self-recovery of the grid by island formation is applied on the modified IEEE 39-bus test network and validated by dynamic simulations.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130621708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hossein Panamtash, Q. Sun, Rubin York, P. Brooker, J. Kramer
{"title":"OUC Gardenia Grid Integration Laboratory: Overview and implementation","authors":"Hossein Panamtash, Q. Sun, Rubin York, P. Brooker, J. Kramer","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078633","url":null,"abstract":"Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) serves the City, of Orlando and surrounding areas. It has a goal of achieving 100% solar energy by 2030. The full penetration of solar energy requires advanced controls and operations of the power grid. To develop and test the advanced control functionalities, OUC has established the Grid Integration Laboratory (GIL). This paper presents a detailed description of GIL developed by the OUC in coordination with the University of Central Florida. The equipment, communication protocols, operation modes, and algorithm are discussed and an overview of the challenges and problems in implementation is presented. Additionally, “solar smoothing” as one of the operation modes is discussed and showcased in greater detail to show the effectiveness of the control algorithm. In addition, the algorithm also handles equipment failure by isolating faults and re-dispatching resources. It is hoped that the knowledge learned from the industry testbed can be shared, reused, and enhanced through the exchange of our experience.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132559066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Categorical Databases for Mathematical Formalization of AC Optimal Power Flow","authors":"M. Barati","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078526","url":null,"abstract":"It has been decades since category theory was applied to databases. In spite of their mathematical elegance, categorical models have traditionally had difficulty representing factual data, such as integers or strings. This paper proposes a categorical dataset for power system computational models, which is used for AC Optimal Power Flows (ACOPF). In addition, categorical databases incorporate factual data using multi-sorted algebraic theories (also known as Lawvere theories) based on the set-valued functor model. In the advanced metering infrastructure of power systems, this approach is capable of handling missing information efficiently. This methodology enables constraints and queries to employ operations on data, such as multiplicative and comparative processes, thereby facilitating the integration between conventional databases and programming languages like Julia and Python’s Pypower. The demonstration illustrates how all elements of the model, including schemas, instances, and functors, can modify the schema in ACOPF instances.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132934987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Çakir, K. Crawford, M. Baran, V. Cecchi, B. Chowdhury, Oluwatimilehin Adeosun, Mariann Thomas, Cara DeCoste Chacko
{"title":"Identifying Factors Contributing to Poor Performance of Near-Real-Time Power Flow","authors":"G. Çakir, K. Crawford, M. Baran, V. Cecchi, B. Chowdhury, Oluwatimilehin Adeosun, Mariann Thomas, Cara DeCoste Chacko","doi":"10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC56611.2023.10078697","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate near real time monitoring is needed for Distribution Management Systems (DMS), and power flow-based methods are commonly used in practice for this purpose. However, near real time power flow results are not always accurate because of the poor load estimation obtained through the bus load allocation (BLA) procedure used in this approach. This paper focuses on this issue and proposes a data analytics-based method to parse through data and identify factors/parameters that are significant and relevant to poor near real time power flow solution. The proposed method uses a Binary logistic regression method to identify these significant parameters for the feeders having poor BLA performance. Test results show that the significant parameters can help to pinpoint the cause(s) for poor BLA performance.","PeriodicalId":183284,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131749647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}