S. Camal, A. Michiorri, G. Kariniotakis, A. Liebelt
{"title":"Short-term forecast of automatic frequency restoration reserve from a renewable energy based virtual power plant","authors":"S. Camal, A. Michiorri, G. Kariniotakis, A. Liebelt","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260311","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the initial findings on a new forecast approach for ancillary services delivered by aggregated renewable power plants. The increasing penetration of distributed variable generators challenges grid reliability. Wind and photovoltaic power plants are technically able to provide ancillary services, but their stochastic behavior currently impedes their integration into reserve mechanisms. A methodology is developed to forecast the flexibility that a wind-photovoltaic aggregate can provide. A bivariate Kernel Density Estimator forecasts the probability to provide reserve. The methodology is tested on a case study where volumes of automatic Frequency Restoration Reserve (aFRR) are forecasted on a day-ahead horizon. It is found that the wind-photovoltaic aggregate can dedicate a limited share of its forecast production to aFRR. The frequency of insufficient reserve capacity is assessed, by comparing the capacities offered with the measured production.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122680966","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}
N. Gueissaz, Konstantina Christakou, J. Boudec, M. Paolone
{"title":"Fair control of distributed PV plants in low voltage grids","authors":"N. Gueissaz, Konstantina Christakou, J. Boudec, M. Paolone","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260294","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we evaluate the potential of distributed phovoltaic (PV) plants for providing primary voltage control to the local distribution grid. Compared to the existing literature, we design an algorithm that schedules the nodal active and reactive powers of the controllable resources using a fair objective given by the active power injected by the distributed PV plants. Additionally, we propose both a centralized and a distributed version of the control algorithm. The latter is based on a dual decomposition framework and allows each controllable resource to schedule its power production independently of the others. We evaluate the proposed algorithms using the CIGRE LV benchmark grid and we show that (i) both algorithms are able to maintain a voltage profile within acceptable limits for safe operation and (ii) the distributed version of the algorithm converges to the same solution as the centralized one.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134124619","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":"Optimal charging schedules for thermal electric storage in the absence of communication","authors":"M. Anwar, M. O’Malley, D. Burke","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260142","url":null,"abstract":"Thermal Electric Storage (TES) has emerged as a promising power-to-heat technology with the potential of enabling active Demand Side Management (DSM). Optimal exploitation of the DSM capability of TES devices requires two-way communication with the grid. However, several contingencies and/or limitations on communication capabilities would render these storage devices incapable of being of any service to the system. This study presents the development of optimal charging schedules for the distributed TES devices which would determine the operation of these devices in the absence of communication. Different strategies are proposed which determine optimal TES charging dependence on local parameters including time of the day, household power consumption and outside temperature. Performance of the proposed charging schedules is then compared to the optimal communication-enabled and the conventional night-time charging scenarios for the All-Island Power System (AIPS). The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed strategies as compared to the conventional night-time charging in terms of significant reduction in annual generation costs and energy consumption. Additionally, charging based on the proposed strategies can achieve up to 43 % of the total cost savings potential of the communication-enabled scenario.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128982041","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}
E. Pouresmaeil, M. Mehrasa, R. Godina, I. Vechiu, R. Rodriguez, J. Catalão
{"title":"Double synchronous controller for integration of large-scale renewable energy sources into a low-inertia power grid","authors":"E. Pouresmaeil, M. Mehrasa, R. Godina, I. Vechiu, R. Rodriguez, J. Catalão","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260220","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy sources are normally connected to the power grid via power electronic converters. High penetration of these energy sources into the power grid leads to high instability in voltage and frequency. This issue is caused by neglecting the inherent characteristics of synchronous generators i.e., inertia, damping and proper active and reactive power sharing in the structure of the used control technique in the control loop of the interfaced converter between power grid and renewable energy sources. This paper presents a power-based control technique based on a double synchronous controller (DSC) for interfaced converter between the renewable energy sources and the power grid, including an active-reactive power based dynamic equation. Through the proposed DSC, a decoupled control method is performed in which both active and reactive power can be injected from renewable energy sources into the power grid by the interfaced power converter with the inherent features of synchronous power generators. By using the proposed control technique, a stable operation of the power grid can be guaranteed during the integration of large-scale renewable energy sources. Stringent simulation results performed in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment verify the proficiency of the proposed control technique.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128154569","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":"SVD-based visualisation and approximation for time series data in smart energy systems","authors":"Abdolrahman Khoshrou, A. Dorsman, E. Pauwels","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260303","url":null,"abstract":"Many time series in smart energy systems exhibit two different timescales. On the one hand there are patterns linked to daily human activities. On the other hand, there are relatively slow trends linked to seasonal variations. In this paper we interpret these time series as matrices, to be visualized as images. This approach has two advantages: First of all, interpreting such time series as images enables one to visually integrate across the image and makes it therefore easier to spot subtle or faint features. Second, the matrix interpretation also grants elucidation of the underlying structure using well-established matrix decomposition methods. We will illustrate both these aspects for data obtained from the German day-ahead market.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127077911","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":"Design of a microgrid transition controller I: For smooth transition operation under normal conditions","authors":"Jing Wang, Bouna M. Cisse, Derek Brown","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260286","url":null,"abstract":"A novel transition controller is presented to achieve seamless transition during the islanding and reconnection of microgrid with the main grid. The transition controller includes functionalities in supervisory level (operation mode management) and device control level (PCC operation control). Coordination between them follows the mechanism of the brain and the muscle: the operation mode management acts like a human brain to command the PCC operation control based on the request from DNO and the network conditions, and the PCC operation control executes the commands and informs the statue of PCC CB to the operation mode management. The developed transition controller is suitable for various microgrids and a sample microgrid is chosen to validate the design. The performance and effectiveness of the proposed microgrid transition controller were evaluated and demonstrated by a typical study case.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"14 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":"116867841","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}
F. Heymann, Carlos Pereira, Vladimiro Miranda, F. Soares
{"title":"Spatial load forecasting of electric vehicle charging using GIS and diffusion theory","authors":"F. Heymann, Carlos Pereira, Vladimiro Miranda, F. Soares","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260172","url":null,"abstract":"The uptake of electric vehicles (EV) will require important modifications in traditional grid planning and load forecasting techniques. Existing literature suggests that the integration of EVs will be more adversarial to elements of the existing electricity infrastructure in terms of power supply (kW) than energy (kWh) delivery. While several studies analyzed the grid impact of electric vehicle fleets, few consider the adoption process itself which may lead to strong spatial variations of the utilization of charging infrastructure. The presented approach extends spatial load forecasting, introducing diffusion theory elements to analyze spatio-temporal clustering of EV charging demand. Using open-access census and grid data, this work develops a deterministic framework to forecast spatial patterns of EV charging applied to a real-world environment. Outcomes suggest substantial spatial clustering of EV adoption patterns, showing substation overrating for EV penetration rates of 25% and above with 7.4kW charging power.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"78 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":"127291728","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":"Peer-to-peer market clearing framework for DERs using knapsack approximation algorithm","authors":"M. Khorasany, Yateendra Mishra, G. Ledwich","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260107","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid uptake of distributed energy resources (DER) requires a new market platform for their active participation to manage energy balance locally. This paper proposes a new Peer to Peer (P2P) market in transactive energy (TE) framework for trading energy among distributed residential prosumers. P2P market is used to enable DERs to trade energy in a distribution network. DERs in the form of residential prosumers decide to buy and/or sell energy to/from other prosumers through an auction. A knapsack approximation algorithm is proposed and the mechanism of market clearing is presented to maximize the economic surplus for a given DER owner in the auction. Residential prosumers, if acting as a seller, use a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for storing renewable energy and evaluate the amount of energy that can be appropriately bid in a given time interval. Numerical results depict that using the proposed framework increases the economic surplus of DER owners in the market.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"101 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":"124853901","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":"Results of the laboratory tests of a novel regulator for meshed low-voltage networks","authors":"Stefan Lang, Haiyan Ma, W. Wellssow","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260112","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of the laboratory test of a novel voltage and current regulator for meshed operated low-voltage grids. The regulator can adjust the mentioned values by adding a complex control voltage to the grid voltage. Besides the analytical basics, a method based on characteristic curves is explained which can be applied to heavily meshed grids. The regulator has been tested in extensive laboratory tests. In the laboratory, which consists of a grid model, loads and PV-inverters, tests with realistic voltage and currents have been performed. The results are presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"247 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":"123282379","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":"Modeling optimal deployment of smart home devices and battery system using MILP","authors":"M. Vukasovic, B. Vukasovic","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260115","url":null,"abstract":"A home energy management system (HEM), which is an integral part of smart grid, can not only allow more comfortable control over smart home appliances but also could reduce electricity bill. With the integration of battery system, a household will become prosumer with the possibility to optimize its own energy use during a certain time period and sell its own excess of electricity on the market. This paper proposes an algorithm to schedule smart home appliances and battery system, by taking into account preferences of an end user as well as the system constraints. The target function is to minimize the total energy costs. Finally, the results of the proposed model in terms of cost savings have been analyzed on three test cases for a typical day.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"42 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":"125380799","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}