{"title":"Impact of transport layer protocols on reliable information access in smart grids","authors":"Kamal Shahid, A. Saeed, T. Kristensen, R. Olsen","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260250","url":null,"abstract":"Time is critical for certain types of dynamic information (e.g. frequency control) in a smart grid scenario. The usefulness of such information depends upon the arrival within a specific frame of time, which in other case may not serve the purpose and effect controllers performance. In this context, transport layer offers different levels of end-to-end communication services to the applications. For instance, TCP guarantees the transport of messages between two ends, however, at the cost of high end-to-end delays due to the retransmission mechanism. Whereas UDP offers minimum end-to-end delays at the cost of unreliable, best-effort data transportation service. The research question raised in this paper is thus, which is preferred for the delay-critical applications of smart grids, and to what degree of packet losses and round trip times, TCP is preferable to UDP and vice versa. The question is addressed by analyzing the performance of UDP and TCP over imperfect network conditions to show how the selection of transport layer protocol can dramatically affect controllers performance. This analysis is based on a quality metric called mismatch probability that considers occurrence of events at grid assets as well as the information update strategy in one single metric which otherwise is not very intuitive and difficult to allow a similar useful comparison. Further, the analysis is concluded by providing a clear guide on the selection of the transport protocol to meet application requirements.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"6 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":"132744004","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":"Analysis of water booster pressure systems as dispatchable loads in smart-grids","authors":"César Díaz, F. Ruiz, D. Patiño","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260168","url":null,"abstract":"Water Booster Pressure Systems (WBPSs) are responsible for supplying water and maintaining pressure in a building pipeline. Whereas there are plenty of buildings using these hydraulic systems, the WBPSs are potentially useful to offer energetic services required by Smart-Grids. Then, it is necessary to evaluate if the systems are dispatchable, and what energy services they can offer. In this work, it is developed a model of a WBPS as a dispatchable load. The model is carried out from first-principles and tuned with experimental data of air pressure, power consumption and water flow. It is shown that the WBPS has the possibility of behaving as dispatchable load by changing the pressure set point. Finally, from the time response to the variation of the set point, WBPS can provide Spinning Reserve Services.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"12 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":"134305177","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 and optimal use of OLTC in wind power plants for reactive power capability requirement compliance","authors":"S. Uski","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260330","url":null,"abstract":"Wind power plants (WPPs) must fulfil Grid Code specified reactive power requirements at their connection points. Thus all the WPP components' influence on reactive power capability counts. The WPP main transformer On-Load Tap Changer (OLTC) control settings or control scheme can be optimized in critical borderline cases, possibly enabling sufficient reactive power capability just by a mere control setting adjustment. The influence of OLTC control voltage reference parameter values is studied related to WPP reactive power capability, and noted that even a relatively small marginal influence makes a difference under certain circumstances. In addition, a method for determining the optimal OLTC voltage control parameter values is introduced and demonstrated successfully on an example Test Case.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"29 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":"133250057","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}
J. Hinker, S. Kippelt, J. Myrzik, Nicolas Witte, A. Heinzel
{"title":"Assessment of available thermal capacity of district heating systems for increased medium-and short-term flexibility of multi-modal power systems","authors":"J. Hinker, S. Kippelt, J. Myrzik, Nicolas Witte, A. Heinzel","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260129","url":null,"abstract":"In theory, district heating systems (DHS) offer an opportunity to increase the flexibility of combined heat-and-power (CHP) plants by working as short- and medium-term thermal storage. Using this capacity, it is possible to dispatch CHP units more flexibly and thus offer, e.g., operating reserve for the electric grid without any additional investments in thermal storages. State-of-the-art optimization studies use this flexibility, but do not show the lever for further tweaks. This work's contribution is to analyze the actual extent of flexibility and the reasons for current limitations in detail. To this end, a model of the propagation of temperature fronts is suggested and applied, and the general applicability of pre-charging a DHS is proved by simulation. A thorough study of design and operation parameter changes is then conducted. Results show that some system variables (e.g., the thermal demand) must be forecast precisely to determine the absorbable thermal power, and that a smart design of system parameters (e.g., supply temperatures) can increase the flexibility.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"72 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":"116633869","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":"Modelling the aggregated dynamic response of electric vehicles","authors":"C. Ziras, Junjie Hu, S. You, H. Bindner","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260222","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing interest in the use of electric vehicles (EVs) for providing fast frequency reserves due to their large installed capacity and their very fast response. Most works focus on scheduling and optimization and usually neglect their aggregated dynamic response, which is particularly important from the power system perspective when EVs offer significant shares of such services. We present a literature review on the aggregated modelling of EVs and derive analytical expressions for the representation of EV populations based on the probability distributions of their parameters. Such approximations can be used in power system studies, in order to capture the dynamics of an EV population more accurately. Finally, we compare our approach to the most widely used in the literature, i.e. the averaging method where all EVs are represented with the population's average values, and discuss the key differences of the two approaches.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"20 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":"116797402","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":"Shapelet based classification of customer consumption patterns","authors":"Bogdan-Petru Butunoi, M. Frîncu","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260281","url":null,"abstract":"Energy consumption time series show similarities among clients which can be further used to classify consumption based on common patterns. The recently introduced shapelet algorithm enables us to perform such classification out of reach for clustering algorithms (e.g., k-means) usually used in smart grid analysis. In this paper we analyze the efficiency of the shapelet algorithm in classifying various weekend consumption patterns extracted from real-life data. We test both the accuracy of the classification and the scalability in comparison with other algorithms such as KNN, DBSCAN, and OPTICS. Results show that while the shapelet algorithm achieves the highest accuracy (« 89%) training time takes about 5.8 hours. However, once the algorithm is trained classification is as fast as KNN. KNN is second best with « 82% accuracy but results depend highly on the value for k and the distance metric. Finally, DBSCAN and OPTICS show poor classification success mainly due to their unsupervised approach. Overall, this analysis demonstrates the efficiency of supervised clustering based on shapelets to identify meaningful information in consumption time series, representing a further step in the area of smart grid data analysis which is currently dominated by unsupervised clustering.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"17 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":"121841336","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}
R. Castellanos, M. Ramirez, Guillermo Calderon, A. R. Messina
{"title":"Impact studies of the effect of large-scale wind integration in the Mexican power grid","authors":"R. Castellanos, M. Ramirez, Guillermo Calderon, A. R. Messina","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260296","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a frequency control strategy that overcomes some of the problems associated with the integration of large wind farms into the Mexican Interconnected System (MIS) is presented. In recent years, several wind farms have been installed in the MIS, especially in the southeastern network of the system. Installed wind energy capacity is around 2.2 GW, representing about 3.5 % of the total installed electric power in the grid. Increase of this kind of renewable generation is expected to have a strong effect on the dynamic performance at the MIS, especially when the penetration level of wind farms will be an important contribution of total generation. Transient stability studies conducted on a 3500-bus system of the Mexican grid shows that the developed procedures can greatly improve system frequency performance of the entire Mexican interconnected system.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"11 2 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":"123521602","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}
J. López, M. J. Rider, Ariovaldo V. Garcia, Patricia L. Cavalcante, Luana F. Miranda, Luana L. Martins
{"title":"Optimization approach for the allocation of remote-controlled switches in real-scale electrical distribution systems","authors":"J. López, M. J. Rider, Ariovaldo V. Garcia, Patricia L. Cavalcante, Luana F. Miranda, Luana L. Martins","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260196","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an optimization approach for the allocation of remote-controlled switching devices in real-scale electrical distribution systems is presented. The proposed approach uses the metaheuristic Tabu Search to solve the switch allocation problem with the following three objectives: improving the grid's reliability indices SAIDI and SAIFI, minimizing the average energy not supplied, and reducing the acquisition, maintenance and operational costs of the installed or reallocated switches. In order to properly calculate the reliability indices of each allocation proposal, an additional optimal restoration process is solved for each zone of the network. The restoration process determines the status of the remote-controlled switches that minimizes the unsupplied demand due to a permanent fault, and that isolates the faulty section of the network. Finally, all tests were executed using realistic, unbalanced, three-phase EDS, with thousands of nodes and consumers, and numerous interconnected feeders, to demonstrate the scalability and efficiency of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"81 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":"123798921","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":"Quasi-resonant multilevel converter for supercapacitor energy storage systems","authors":"F. Ibanez","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260106","url":null,"abstract":"There are several topologies that are used in multilevel converters. Most of them use hard-switching techniques to achieve the objective, particularly in modular multilevel converters. It is well known that hard-switching topologies are easier to control but has more switching power losses than soft-switching topologies. Usually, this is not a problem for multilevel converters attached with batteries, where the switching frequency can be kept at a low value. However, in converters for supercapacitors, a very high efficiency and compact design is needed. This is because, the supercapacitors have a very low voltage (∼2.7V) and a modular multilevel converter will use many modules to achieve the desired output voltage value. The use of soft-switching techniques allows the converter to work at a higher frequency by reducing the switching losses. The paper presents a quasi-resonant multilevel converter for supercapacitor storage systems. It analyses both power flow directions and simulations of a 62-supercapacitor converter were performed to validate the analysis.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"34 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":"125013650","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}
Marilena Minou, G. Stamoulis, Thanasis G. Papaioannou
{"title":"The effect of altruism in automated demand response for residential users","authors":"Marilena Minou, G. Stamoulis, Thanasis G. Papaioannou","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260336","url":null,"abstract":"Automated demand response (ADR) programs play key role in alleviating the supply and demand imbalances by mitigating the uncertainties on power system operations in an automated (pre-contracted) way. Usually users are taken as fully rational. However, behavioural economics contend that their decisions depend on a suite of individual non-economic factors, such as altruism. In this work we broaden the ways of engaging in ADR contracts users exhibiting different degrees of altruism and motivate them effectively to ultimately optimize the overall use of energy. We investigate the impact of altruism on the total incentives to be offered by the provider and the social welfare, and identify the optimal demand reduction and user targeting strategies for performing ADR in such populations. Based on experiments with real and synthetic data, we find that exploiting altruism can be beneficial for the social welfare of the system and the incentive costs of the provider. However, leveraging altruists should be performed carefully, since saddling them with high power reductions, although yielding lower total incentives, can prove inefficient for the social welfare of the system.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"111 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":"130099600","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}