{"title":"Maximizing the cost-savings for time-of-use and net-metering customers using behind-the-meter energy storage systems","authors":"T. Nguyen, R. Byrne","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107380","url":null,"abstract":"The transformation of today's grid toward smart grid has given the energy storage systems (ESSs) the opportunity to provide more services to the electric grid as well as the end customers. On the grid's side, ESSs can generate revenue streams participating in electricity markets by providing services such as energy arbitrage, frequency regulation or spinning reserves. On the customers' side, ESSs can provide a wide range of applications from on-site back-up power, storage for off-grid renewable systems to solutions for load shifting and peak shaving for commercial/industrial businesses. In this work, we provide an economic analysis of behind-the-meter (BTM) ESSs. A nonlinear optimization problem is formulated to find the optimal operating scheme for ESSs to minimize the energy and demand charges of time-of-use (TOU) customers, or to minimize the energy charge of net-metering (NEM) customers. The problem is then transformed to Linear Programming (LP) problems and formulated using Pyomo optimization modeling language. Case studies are conducted for PG&E's residential and commercial customers in San Francisco.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130354250","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":"Quantifying transient stability of generators by basin stability and Kuramoto-like models","authors":"Zhao Liu, Ziang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107260","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional approach of power system transient stability analysis use time-domain simulation and detailed system information. Recent efforts on non-uniform Kuramoto oscillators and basin stability have revealed new ways to address stability problems on power systems. In this paper, we introduce a method that can quantify how likely a generator remains synchronized after a disturbance. We show that by changing transmission line reactance, the basin stability of the system will change accordingly. Single-node basin stability can provide a relative node stability ranking for the system. This work helps bridge the gap between conventional transient stability analysis and non-linear oscillator analysis from the complex network perspective. Simulations on a two-area, four-machine system and a 16-machine, 68-bus system are provided.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115602563","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 sample-autocorrelation-based approach for monitoring power-system damping from ambient synchrophasor data","authors":"Sandip Roy, B. Lesieutre","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107233","url":null,"abstract":"Estimation of power-system damping from synchrophasor frequency measurements is studied. Specifically, a procedure for determining the damping of a dominant mode from the turns ratio of the sample autocorrelation function is outlined. The main contribution of the work is to then develop performance bounds on the damping estimates, and demonstrate approximation of these bounds entirely from the measurement data. The technique has been applied to archived historical data from the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), and a real-time implementation has also been developed.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114718239","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":"Time-varying stochastic and analytical assesment of CVR in DER integrated distribution feeder","authors":"Md. Shakawat Hossan, B. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107176","url":null,"abstract":"Conservation voltage reduction (CVR) is broadly recognized as a smart-grid technique for load and loss minimization by reducing the operational voltage at the distribution substation. Advantages of CVR deployment in distributed energy resource (DER) integrated system are quite substantial due to the power transfer from various locations to the sinks/loads. However, due to the stochastic nature of photovoltaic (PV)/wind based DERs and loads, benefits of CVR might vary from time to time. This paper demonstrates the use of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to measure the benefits of CVR at different time instances by estimating the CVR factors, the voltage sensitivity factors, and the loss factor considering load and PV uncertainty. This analysis gives flexibility to the utilities to decide on the timing on CVR arrangements in a specific distribution feeder and good knowledge about CVR benefits for a chosen feeder. Beta and normal distributions are used for solar and load uncertainty modeling, respectively. In addition, the paper provides a probabilistic analysis on the predictive CVR-off operational voltage during the CVR deployment time for approximate estimation of the factors. An existing distribution feeder in Duke Energy's service territory is used to conduct a time-series analysis for analyzing the results.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124857395","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}
M. Rezaee, Anina H. Mu, Carolyn R. Majane, Maimuona A. Niang, R. Harley
{"title":"Portable PVenergy conversion system suitable for educational purposes; part 1: Pollution reduction rate and reactive power delivery estimation","authors":"M. Rezaee, Anina H. Mu, Carolyn R. Majane, Maimuona A. Niang, R. Harley","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107327","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is the first part of a three-part consecutive series regarding the design of a new portable photovoltaic (PV) generation system used for teaching the energy conversion process of a real PV system. This design is to comply with a national effort known as the SunShot initiative which aims to leverage the awareness of renewable resources, particularly PV generation systems. The experimental set for this design includes a PV panel, an inverter, a typical load, two MyDAQs as the data acquisition system, a laptop to run the LabVIEW program, and a 32\" TV monitor to display the results. To be suitable for educational purposes, the system is designed to show three aspects of the system: pollution reduction rate, power conversion process, and the axillary services that a real PV generation system can offer to the grid. This paper particularly presents three objectives: 1) design the PV-powered cart, 2) analyze the pollution reduction capability, and 3) estimate the amount of reactive power available to be delivered to the grid. The specifications of the materials used for this design are presented along with the developed program used under Lab VIEW to visualize those aspects. The impact of this design on leveraging the awareness of PV generation system is significant, particularly for the next generation workforce of the power industry.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123259871","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":"Comparative analysis of fault discrimination algorithms on sensitivity to high impedance busbar faults","authors":"Monir Hossain, I. Leevongwat, P. Rastgoufard","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107244","url":null,"abstract":"Presently there is not one differential protection characteristic which is self-sufficient to detect all possible busbar faults accurately. Particularly, during close-in external fault, current transformer (CT) saturation creates high operating current which can cause mal-operation of differential relays. As a result, a fault discriminator is necessary to supervise the differential schemes to prevent undesired tripping operation. Most of the existing fault discrimination algorithms have been proven as an efficient external fault detector; however, they suffer from lack of sensitivity to high impedance internal faults. This paper presents a comparative analysis on sensitivity of three existing fault discrimination algorithms including Phase Angle Comparison Algorithm (PACA), Rate of Change of Differential Algorithm (ROCODA), and Alienation Coefficient Algorithm (ACA). Fault simulations were performed using a three-bus test system. The results documented in this paper show that the degree of sensitivity of ROCODA and ACA are similar and much higher than PACA. The comparative analysis presented in this paper can be employed as a useful guideline for selection of an appropriate protection scheme for busbar systems.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121749716","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 review of air conditioning motor loads stalling on voltage recovery in the saudi electric grid","authors":"T. Alaqeel, S. Almohaimeed, S. Suryanarayanan","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107175","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the impact of air conditioning motor stalling in the Saudi electric grid. Slow voltage recovery after fault events is a result of high concentration of prone-to-stall motors in the grid. Multiple mitigation solutions are discussed from technical, regulatory, economical and planning perspectives.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"3 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122578435","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":"Predicting model of phasor estimation for a faster response time","authors":"Aditie Garg, V. Centeno","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107207","url":null,"abstract":"Phaser measurement unit (PMU) is one of the key components in present wide area monitoring, protection, and control systems (wAMPAC). There are delays in PMU measurements due to the delay in PMU signal acquisition that may affect the performance of applications in real time in the grid. In this paper, in order to mitigate the effect of signal acquisition delays, a predicting model of PMU is proposed for estimating the phasor. This prediction model focuses on estimation of phasors which require faster response and low latency rates with respect to protection of power system. The algorithm is tested with different window filters at various sampling frequency rates and window lengths carried out for phasor estimation. It is seen that the simulation results give an accurate and lower signal acquisition delay incurred during phasor estimation.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"360 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122773786","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":"Battery identification based on real-world data","authors":"Miao Zhang, Zhixin Miao, Lingling Fan","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107387","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, system identification is carried out for a 20 kWh battery using real-world measurements data. State-of-charge (SOC) and the open-circuit voltage (Voc) relationship will be obtained using least square estimation (LSE) non-linear regression. In addition, how to estimate SOC using current measurements and how to estimate the equivalent circuit's RC parameters are carried out using autoregressive exogenous (ARX) models. The respective ARX models are first derived. Estimation of the ARX coefficients is then carried out. Finally, parameter recovery is conducted to find out parameters with physical meanings, e.g., RC values. With the identified Voc and SOC relationship and RC parameters, we built a simulation model in MATLAB/Simpowersystems. With the measured current data from the real-world as the input, the simulation model gives the terminal DC voltage as the output. This output is compared with the real-world DC voltage measurements data and the matching degree is satisfactory.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125165792","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":"Measurement-based characterization of residential lighting devices: CFL and LED","authors":"Julio C. Gelvez, A. Ramirez","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107190","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a methodology to characterize Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) and Light Emitting Diodes (LED) lamp, based on measurements and simplified circuital models. The methodology relies on voltage and current measurements to estimate unknown parameters of the corresponding circuital model. The parameters estimation adopts linear least-squares and three optimization methods. The obtained results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposal based on real lighting devices.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125203608","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}