F. Adinolfi, S. Massucco, M. Saviozzi, F. Silvestro, A. Fidigatti, F. Monachesi, E. Ragaini
{"title":"A load management algorithm for PCC interface breaker","authors":"F. Adinolfi, S. Massucco, M. Saviozzi, F. Silvestro, A. Fidigatti, F. Monachesi, E. Ragaini","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260266","url":null,"abstract":"Today the power generation sector is still dominated by fossil fuel resulting in an increase of CO2 emissions. In order to fight this issue and to reduce the generation costs large amounts of generation from renewable have to be exploited. This requires the implementation of new techniques to control a more complex electrical system. Different strategies can be used for the smart management of distribution networks such as peak shaving, load shaping, etc. The aim of this work is to present an Intelligent Load Management (ILM) technique, that can be implemented on board of real LV breaker with the goal to manage controllable loads in a microgrid scenario. The ILM proposed methodology is able to control the power absorption at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) of a generic microgrid exploiting information provided by real time measures.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","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":"122651497","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}
S. Talari, M. Shafie‐khah, M. Haghifam, M. Yazdaninejad, J. Catalão
{"title":"Short-term scheduling of microgrids in the presence of demand response","authors":"S. Talari, M. Shafie‐khah, M. Haghifam, M. Yazdaninejad, J. Catalão","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260306","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, operation management of microgrids is performed. To do so, some contingencies including outage of distributed generators (DG), energy storage (ES) and the upstream network are considered. Since the microgrids have suitable capabilities in terms of control and communication, demand response reserve can be applied to improve the operation management. Using Monte Carlo simulation method and Markov chain, several scenarios are generated to show the possible contingencies in various hours. Then, a scenario reduction method is used for reducing the number of scenarios. Finally, a two-stage stochastic model is applied to solve a day-ahead scheduling problem in mixed-integer linear programming by GAMS. Consequently, the effect of demand response in the reduction of operation cost is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"60 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":"124191270","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":"An innovative cost-effective smart meter with embedded non intrusive load monitoring","authors":"M. Nardello, M. Rossi, D. Brunelli","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260242","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the time, domestic energy usage is invisible to the users. Households have only a vague idea about the amount of energy they are using for different purposes during the day, and the electric bill is usually the only monthly/bimonthly feedback. Making the energy consumption promptly visible can make the difference and foster a really efficient usage of the energy in a city. The emerging smart metering infrastructure has the potential to address some of these goals, by providing both households and electric utilities useful information about energy consumption, with a detailed breakdown to single appliance contribution. This paper presents a novel ultra-low-cost smart metering system capable of providing domestic AC load identification, by implementing both basic/typical smart meter measurement and a simple yet effective load disaggregation algorithm, which can detect and monitor domestic loads starting from a single point of measurement.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"69 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":"129156862","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":"Determining occupancy from a WiFi router's electric power consumption in an office environment","authors":"T. Petrovic, Kazuya Echigo, H. Morikawa","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260214","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of most modern energy management systems in buildings is to reduce unnecessary waste and cut peak electric demand. Underpinning this need is the ability to detect the number of people occupying a given space. This allows for both the ability to shut down all nonessential devices contributing to the electric waste while no one is present, as well as optimise the amount of electricity used in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, depending on the number of people present. In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to determine the number of people in a room by monitoring the electric power consumption of a WiFi router. We show that the WiFi router's minimum power consuption can be used as features to determine the number of connected devices and link this to the types of data packets used by the network. Finally, we also perform measurements in an office environment and show that it is possible to classify the number of people with high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"13 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":"128842351","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}
K. Suslov, E. Stashkevich, I. Shushpanov, N. Voropai, Pham Trung Son
{"title":"Expansion planning of active power supply systems","authors":"K. Suslov, E. Stashkevich, I. Shushpanov, N. Voropai, Pham Trung Son","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260146","url":null,"abstract":"Consideration is given to the problems of active power system expansion planning. An analysis of content of these problems and the extent to which they are studied is presented. The expansion planning problem is represented by three successive stages: substantiation of a rational configuration of power supply system, complex optimization of the power supply system structure and parameters, considering different requirements, and research into the operating conditions. The research shows that the problems to be solved at the stage of the research on operating conditions of the future active power supply systems are the least investigated. The proposals are formulated to systematize the composition and content of such problems and provide information on the directions of their formalization. The examples of active electrical networks are presented. They demonstrate the concept of necessary measures. It is shown that the use of modern multifunctional switching devices in the distribution electrical networks, development of protection and emergency control systems, and the need to coordinate their operation changed the ideology of emergency control activities toward their automation by reconfiguring the electrical network and making it active in the sense of response to the equipment failures and emergencies.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"77 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":"115983931","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 communication comparison: Distributed control middleware and serialization comparison for the Internet of Things","authors":"Bo Petersen, H. Bindner, B. Poulsen, S. You","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260268","url":null,"abstract":"To solve the problems caused by intermittent renewable energy production, communication between Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and system operators is necessary. The communication middleware and serialization used for communication are essential to ensure delivery of the messages within the required timeframe, to provide the necessary ancillary services to the power grid. This paper shows that there are better alternatives to using Web Services and XMPP as middleware and that there are better alternatives than using XML for serialization. The paper also gives guidance at choosing the best communication middleware and serialization format/library, aided by the authors' earlier work, which investigates the performance and characteristics of communication middleware and serialization independently. Given the performance criteria of the paper, ZeroMQ, YAMI4, and ICE are the middleware that performs the best, and ProtoBuf (ProtoStuff), and ProtoStuff are the serialization that performs the best.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","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":"114505220","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}
P. Azzaroli, M. Corti, S. Grillo, L. Piegari, E. Tironi
{"title":"Storage system control for fault protections of single phase loads in inverter-dominated grids","authors":"P. Azzaroli, M. Corti, S. Grillo, L. Piegari, E. Tironi","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260246","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays micro-grids are taking a important role in power systems design, control and management. One of the key features of actual micro-grids is the predominant presence of power electronic converters, which limit the inertia of the system and the ability to provide high short circuit currents. In fact, power electronic converters limit the fault current to approximately 1.5 times their rated current. This could lead to a failure of traditional protections, based on high current detection. Different solutions to this problem have been proposed in literature. Among others, the exploitation of a storage system to increase the short circuit current and, thus, reach the pick-up value of traditional relays has been investigated. This paper deals with the results of tests on such an arrangement, carried out on a real micro-grid test facility at Politecnico di Milano premises.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"43 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":"114645948","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}
K. Witheephanich, S. Roshany-Yamchi, A. Mcgibney, S. Rea
{"title":"Constrained model predictive control for operation of a building-integrated microgrid","authors":"K. Witheephanich, S. Roshany-Yamchi, A. Mcgibney, S. Rea","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260182","url":null,"abstract":"Building energy consumption in Ireland makes accounts for 40% of total energy usage, so reducing building energy usage is of great importance. Building integration with microgrids offers a transition to a more energy and cost efficient infrastructure with more fine grained control being possible. To guarantee microgrid stability and efficient operation, this paper formulates a constrained model predictive control problem by using a simplified hybrid system model with logic constraints; and building load and energy price predictions for the dynamic energy management of the microgrid. In terms of a use case we focus on the microgrid installed at our research building comprising of a combined heat and power unit/boilers/storage tank/battery bank. The effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm is illustrated through numerical simulations.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"16 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":"127239772","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":"Flexibility service market for active congestion management of distribution networks using flexible energy resources of microgrids","authors":"E. Amicarelli, T. Q. Tran, S. Bacha","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260198","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays in Europe, more than 90% of solar and wind plants are connected to distribution grids causing technical issues and increase of costs. Network reinforcement may not be the most efficient and cost-efficient solution. Therefore, smart strategies exploiting users' flexibilities need to be developed in order to efficiently manage current grid infrastructure. In this paper, a framework to develop a flexibility service market for active management of distribution grids will be discussed. Moreover, an optimization model for day-ahead congestion management scheduling based on available generation flexibilities in microgrids is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed model for both distribution system operators and microgrids is tested with a case study using a 74-bus distribution network with connected three microgrids. The results are compared with network reinforcement expenses.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","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":"127240953","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 case study of an adaptive protection scheme for the web-of-cells concept","authors":"M. Valov, J. Merino","doi":"10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEurope.2017.8260284","url":null,"abstract":"The future power system is envisaged to be smarter, more communicative, more automated. These principles also apply to the protection methods ensuring system's safety. Within the Web-of-Cells framework of the ELECTRA IRP project aiming to develop novel voltage and frequency control concepts, smart protection systems become an important issue. In view of the control managing flexible and unpredictable grid conditions automatically, the protection systems must be able to change their behavior dynamically reflecting the prevailing power system state and continually identifying the disturbed grid conditions. This paper presents a case study of an adaptive protection scheme which roots on the coordination of distributed intelligent electronic devices, and where the adaptive functionality is based on a centralized communication control. The adaptive scheme has been applied to a representative cell grid and it addresses appropriate actions by protection devices to cope with the flexibility required by the Web-of-Cells concept.","PeriodicalId":345050,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)","volume":"46 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":"124118768","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}