{"title":"A novel method for single phase-to-ground fault location based on wavelet analysis and correlation","authors":"T. Bi, Rongrong Shen, J. Plans, Huashi Zhao","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497876","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the problem of single phase-to-ground fault location in distribution networks. A novel method is proposed that overcomes the difficulties that traditional fault location methods have, like their sensibility to the large transition resistance due to the fault. First, correlation is used in combination with the wavelet transform to analyze the series of transient electric wavefronts generated by the fault. Then, the travelling wave principle is applied to determine the distance between the busbar and the fault location. Theory analysis and ATP simulation indicate that the proposed method is robust and accurate.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130314790","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":"Smart grid: An assessment of opportunities and challenges in its deployment in the ghana power system","authors":"Norbert Anku, Julius Abayatcye, S. Oguah","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497800","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of Smart Grid have in recent times being introduced around the world to make the grid smarter and more intelligent. Modernization of the grid will help with the integration of renewable energy resources, improve supply of reliable power, promote energy efficiency etc. The current status of the grid in Ghana is being studied. The potential, opportunities and challenges of Smart Grid deployment in Ghana are analyzed. The paper reviews Smart Grid technologies, the state of Ghana with regards to Smart grids, the opportunities and benefits. Furthermore, the paper discusses challenges and recommendations to address these challenges.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130325093","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}
H. Abdelhalim, A. Farid, A. Adegbege, K. Youcef-Toumi
{"title":"Transient stability of power systems with different configurations for wind power integration","authors":"H. Abdelhalim, A. Farid, A. Adegbege, K. Youcef-Toumi","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497903","url":null,"abstract":"Previous transient stability studies investigating the effects of wind power integration into a conventional power system assume the insertion point of the wind-generating units to be at the same bus and interconnection voltage as the synchronous generators they are substituting or complementing. While these assumptions offer some insights into the effects of the wind on the existing system, important points about the physical distance and interconnection voltage of wind farms with respect to the conventional power system are neglected. This paper analyzes the effects of integrating doubly-fed induction wind turbine generators through different transmission line configurations and at different buses. The IEEE 14-bus test system is used in order to compare results with previous works. Results show that connecting wind generators through transmission lines and to different buses introducesdelays in the speed dynamic responses of existing synchronous generators. These delays in turn affect the bus voltage oscillations. Results also show that there is no significant effect on the base cases when using different interconnection voltages to connect the wind. The results of this study can be used by power system operators when deciding how to connect wind farms to an existing power network when optimizing for stability response to a large fault. Overall, wind farms should be connected through additional transmission lines to buses near where synchronous generators are located and further away from loads and higher risk fault areas.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126913762","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":"Influence models of cascading failure and frequency oscillation in the power grid","authors":"Hannan Ma, Husheng Li, J. Song","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497799","url":null,"abstract":"Power grid is a complex network of connected components interacting with each other. In this paper we focus on the random dynamics of both load cascading failure and the propagation of frequency oscillation in power grids. We effectively identify the vulnerable nodes by the steady state probabilities of influence model. Influence model is a type of inter-connected Markov chains that could efficiently model the interactive dynamic processes of networked components. We present the procedure to construct both homogenous and heterogeneous influence models using realtime frequency measurements. A low-complexity algorithm is proposed to compute the steady state probability of the Influence model. The computational complexity is dropped from O(N6) FLOPS to O(N4) for N-node networks. The computational memory space is reduced by 68%.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121566439","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":"On-line redesign based approach for fault accommodation in wind turbines","authors":"Tushar Jain, J. Yamé, D. Sauter","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497807","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a real-time mechanism to tolerate faults occurring in a Wind Turbine (WT) system. This system is a FAST coded simulator designed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory's. The demonstrated mechanism lies under the taxonomy of Active Fault-Tolerant Control (AFTC) systems, namely online redesign based approach. In the proposed approach, we do not use any a priori information about the model of the turbine in real-time. In fact, we use online measurements generated by the WT. Based on the given control specifications, and the observed measurements an occurring fault is accommodated by reconfiguring the controller such that the WT generates the rated power even under faulty conditions. Secondly, no use of an explicit fault-diagnosis module is seen in this approach. Therefore, the fault accommodation delay in the proposed AFTC system is smaller than the delay as experienced in the traditional structure of AFTC systems.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125632163","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":"Identification scheme and name service in the Internet of Energy","authors":"Julian Krenge, Marcel Scheibmayer, Matthias Deindl","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497889","url":null,"abstract":"The German energy industry is in flux. Renewable energies, unbundling of energy supply chains and increasing competition pressure require innovative approaches to the organization of energy distribution. The Internet of Energy epitomizes the technological framework for the energy market of the future. It allows decentralized control and more efficient use of renewable energy. However its structure and organization is widely unclear. The project “Smart Watts” aims to create a scalable, efficient and secure framework for market communication in the energy sector. First requirement for such an infrastructure is an identification service. The Energy Name Service (ENS) enables the identification of elements within the Internet of Energy and provides the functionality to retrieve additional information on the elements.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121958000","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 novel partitioning strategy for distribution networks featuring many small scale generators","authors":"Benjamin Millar, D. Jiang, M. Haque","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497813","url":null,"abstract":"The modern power distribution network is constantly changing with the introduction of small scale distributed generators (DG). DG offer great opportunities such as voltage support and reduced customer costs. However, high DG penetration can give rise to network constraint breaches such as voltage and frequency limits, fault ride through capability, system security, reliability and stability. To avoid these breaches regulation of DG is essential. With the introduction of vast numbers of DG, common regulation approaches can lead to under utilisation of DG resources, requiring unnecessary high voltage (HV) grid imports and increasing line losses. In this study we aim to design a network partitioning strategy that enables the efficient management of DG, and maximises DG output and reduces costs. We introduce a subnet partitioning strategy that maximises the utilisation of DG power by balancing it with local demand, where locality is quantified in a modified electrical distance. We also present a case study that compares three partitioning strategies under a variety of network demands. Results show that the proposed power balanced partitioning technique can provide a structure to the DG regulation that offers better efficiency of DG operation than other partitioning strategies. In addition, the adaptive nature of the partitioning can make it capable of reducing HV grid power imports, reducing line losses, and improving voltage profiles. Furthermore, such a partitioning approach can add robustness over a range of network conditions.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127928968","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}
A. McKinnon, S. R. Thompson, R. A. Doroshchuk, Glenn A. Fink, E. Fulp
{"title":"Bio-inspired cyber security for smart grid deployments","authors":"A. McKinnon, S. R. Thompson, R. A. Doroshchuk, Glenn A. Fink, E. Fulp","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497880","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Grid technologies are transforming the electric power system in ways that will significantly impact electric distribution systems and result in greater efficiency. However, the increased scale of the grid and the new types of information it will transmit introduce security risks that cannot be addressed by traditional, centralized security techniques. We propose a scalable approach inspired by the complex-adaptive control systems of social insects, such as ants and bees. These systems emerge from inter-agent communication and the collective application of simple rules. The Digital Ants framework is a bio-inspired framework that uses lightweight, mobile agents. The agents communicate using digital pheromones which enable the agents to alert each other of possible cyber security issues. All communication and coordination is both localized and decentralized thereby allowing the framework to scale across the large numbers of devices that will exist in the Smart Grid. Furthermore, being lightweight makes the agents suitable for implementation on devices with limited computational resources. This paper will provide a brief overview of the Digital Ants framework and then present results from testbed-based demonstrations that show how Digital Ants can identify a cyber security attack scenario against smart meter deployments.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131365406","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":"Self-organization of a mesh hierarchy for smart grid monitoring in outage scenarios","authors":"A. Athreya, P. Tague","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497871","url":null,"abstract":"Current hierarchical communication infrastructure in the smart grid is not robust for data collection from smart meters during outages. In this work, we propose a self-organizing multi-channel wireless communication framework to aid in data collection for smart grid health monitoring. Our proposed self-organization consists of two stages. First, smart meters form local mesh clusters by flattening the provisioned hierarchy. Second, the clusters interconnect to provide mesh connectivity from the outage region to functioning regions of the grid. We propose to construct this mesh-of-meshes hierarchy using a cross-layer strategy. The strategy jointly considers medium access limitations and the asymmetric traffic flow that becomes more heavy near the edges of the outage area. Our design framework allows an operator to plan network deployment, spectrum management, and medium access to perform as needed during an outage.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133831971","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 strategy to improve reference tracking of distributed energy resources","authors":"A. Mehrizi‐Sani","doi":"10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2013.6497924","url":null,"abstract":"With the proliferation of the concept of the smart grid, the power system operates closer to its operational limits. This problem is exacerbated in a small scale power system, such as a microgrid, in which resources such as spare generation are limited. Therefore, it is important that control strategies are in place that ensure effective mitigation of disturbances in a timely manner. In this paper, a distributed control strategy is proposed that aims to damp the transients of a power system variable using local measurements. The proposed strategy adaptively temporarily adjusts the set point of a power system apparatus to design its trajectory. Depending on the availability of a model and prediction capability, the proposed strategy can be implemented as set point automatic adjustment (SPAA) or set point automatic adjustment with correction enabled (SPAACE). The performance of this strategy under several test scenarios is evaluated. It is seen that the proposed strategy is effective in mitigating oscillations.","PeriodicalId":268687,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134096814","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}