{"title":"The Efficacy of Different Technologies on Grid-independency of a Small Energy Community With Varying Goals and Comfort Levels","authors":"T. Swarts, R. Benders, J. Morren","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898485","url":null,"abstract":"This study quantifies the yearly electricity self-sufficiency rate and self-consumption rate of a small energy community for different distributed energy resources. The efficacy of different technologies on grid-independency are presented for varying community goals and resident comfort levels. The study simulates demand side management of appliances using a non-linear integer programming algorithm. Results show that the efficacy of distributed energy resources is highly dependent on resident engagement and community goals and highlight the importance of defining goals and values of residents before constructing community energy systems.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122608530","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":"Operational Strategies for Serving the Multi-Energy Demand","authors":"C. Piran, A. Mazza, G. Chicco","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898154","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-energy systems (MES) enable the integration of different energy vectors for serving a multienergy demand variable in time. MES operation is constrained by different kinds of limits, including limits on the components and limits due to the topology of the interconnections and technical aspects concerning the interactions among MES components. This paper presents a novel extension of the optimization model with linear constraints used in the literature to solve the MES optimization with constant efficiencies and coefficients of performance (COP) of the equipment. The extended optimization model considers non-linear convex expressions of the equipment efficiencies and COPs and solves the optimization model with linear constraints in an iterative way, until the solution does not change more than a specified tolerance. The optimal MES solutions are shown considering the operation of a trigeneration system that serves electricity, heat and cooling loads in winter and summer cases with specific demand and energy prices, comparing the solutions with constant and variable efficiencies and COP.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124564868","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}
Panagiotis Loulakis, Georgios Tsaousoglou, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos
{"title":"Profitable Vehicle-to-Grid Services with Minimal Battery Degradation using Deep Reinforcement Learning","authors":"Panagiotis Loulakis, Georgios Tsaousoglou, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898151","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicle-to-Grid technology enables utilizing the batteries of Electric Vehicles (EVs) to store energy and feed it back to the grid at peak-price hours. A smart charging algorithm can manage the charge-discharge decisions of an EV fleet, so as to maximize financial benefits while keeping battery degradation within acceptable levels. This paper implements three deep reinforcement learning algorithms and compares them based on their monetary gain as well as the vehicle battery degradation they cause. The algorithms’ performance is evaluated for different parking sizes and under different traffic conditions, each evaluation repeated multiple times with different price variation. Comparing the algorithms’ results we can clearly see then demonstrating their superiority over a plausible conservative heuristic and their acceptable sensitivity to biased training data.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124538468","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. Hosseini, Parisa Hajialigol, M. Aghaei, S. Erba, V. Nik, Amin Moazami
{"title":"Improving Climate Resilience and Thermal Comfort in a Complex Building through Enhanced Flexibility of the Energy System","authors":"S. Hosseini, Parisa Hajialigol, M. Aghaei, S. Erba, V. Nik, Amin Moazami","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898453","url":null,"abstract":"This research evaluates the impacts of flexible demand-side management on electricity load and indoor thermal comfort under extreme weather conditions, focusing on elderly people. For this purpose, an elderly care center in Ålesund, Norway is chosen as the pilot building. A high spatiotemporal resolution building energy model is developed including thermal zones and energy systems, verified against metered electricity use. The performance of the flexible demand-side management is assessed in relation with the installed PV production, during extreme warm conditions considering 13 future climate scenarios over the 30-year period of 2021-2050. Adaptation measures are applied to respond to the environment variations, providing flexibility while ensuring the thermal comfort of the residents. Results show 22% and 20% peak power and load curtailment, respectively. The discomfort hours are reduced by 22%. The performance of the flexible energy management appears when the PV production is not sufficient for the demand. Therefore, the impacts are on the grid electricity which leads toward a higher grid independency. The most significant change is the peak shaving in the afternoon hours when the grid experiences high loads. Further research is required to evaluate the effectiveness of installing battery system on load shifting.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"198 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114733368","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":"Multi-market Participation of a Renewable Power-to-Hydrogen Facility with Battery Storage","authors":"N. Čović, I. Pavić, H. Pandžić, I. Androcec","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898443","url":null,"abstract":"According to the European Union strategies, efforts must be undertaken to replace fossil-fueled technologies with low-carbon and renewable ones by 2050. Alongside renewable energy sources, hydrogen gradually takes the lead in decarbonizing the energy sector. The paper presents an optimization model of a low-carbon power plant consisting of a battery storage, an electrolyzer and a PV plant, participating in the day-ahead electricity and gas markets. Additionally, the plant also takes part in reserve and balancing electricity markets. The influence of different sizes of battery storage and electrolyzer on the proposed system is evaluated, together with the impact of changes in market prices.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128340063","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":"Estimation of Residential PV Power Generation Using Panel Azimuth Information","authors":"G. Mufti, M. Asprou, C. Panayiotou","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898425","url":null,"abstract":"The high integration of residential Photovoltaics (PVs) to the low voltage distribution network, poses several challenges to the operation of the power systems today. The main reason is that roof-top solar PV sites are usually unobservable by the distribution system operators (DSOs) and consequently their generation is not measured. Therefore, the accurate knowledge regarding the real time generation of the residential PVs will become an imperative need. In this paper, a methodology for estimating the power generated by all the residential PVs of a certain area using the available information from some observable residential PVs is proposed. Considering the high impact of the solar panel orientation on the PV generation, the proposed method clusters together the residential PVs with the same orientation. The results show that there is a maximum reduction in the mean absolute error by 62% in the summer season for 25 degree panel azimuth in comparison to the case that the generation of the unobservable PVs are estimated without using the orientation of the solar panels. The methodology was validated using real data from residential PVs.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127627136","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 Adjustable Robust Optimization Approach for the Expansion Planning of a Virtual Power Plant","authors":"Ana Baringo, L. Baringo, J. Arroyo","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898488","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel approach based on adjustable robust optimization for the expansion planning of a virtual power plant (VPP) that participates in the energy electricity market. The VPP comprises conventional, renewable, and storage units, as well as flexible demands, and analyzes the possibility of building new conventional, renewable, and storage units with the aim of maximizing its profit. The uncertainty related to future production costs of the conventional generating units, future consumption levels of the flexible demands, and future energy market prices is modeled using confidence bounds and uncertainty budgets. The resulting model is formulated as a trilevel program with lower-level binary variables that is solved using a nested column-and-constraint generation algorithm. Results from a case study show the effective performance of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128823196","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. Radhakrishnan, Indla Rajitha Sai Priyamvada, Sarasij Das
{"title":"Impact of P – Q Control based PV Generator on Memory-Polarized Mho Relay","authors":"A. Radhakrishnan, Indla Rajitha Sai Priyamvada, Sarasij Das","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898455","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents novel findings on the performance of positive sequence memory-polarized (PSMP) mho distance element influenced by the converter controls of photovoltaic (PV) generators. PSMP mho relays are used for distance protection of transmission lines. Positive sequence memory polarization is employed to ensure dependable operation during close-in faults. For the PSMP mho elements located on transmission lines energized by synchronous generators (SGs), the memory polarized mho elements experience an expansion of characteristics. This dynamic expansion enhances the resistive coverage of the characteristics, thus improving its dependability. In PV generators, the converter controls determine the magnitudes and angles of fault signals. This paper presents the impact of $P-Q$ control of grid-following PV generators on the dynamic and steady-state behaviour of the PSMP mho characteristics. The has been analyzed with respect to the fault signals governed has been analyzed with respect to the fault signals governed by the $P-Q$ control strategy. Modified IEEE-39 bus system with additional PV generators is simulated in PSCAD software for performance evaluations. Various Zone-1 forward faults and Zone-3 reverse faults have been studied to analyze the dynamic PSMP mho performance. It is observed that for the lines emanating from PV generators, the PSMP mho characteristics lose their resistive reach considerably for both forward and reverse faults. As a result, the dependability of the PSMP mho element also explained in terms of the $P-Q$ control actions during fault.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126781473","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":"Internal Model-based Voltage Control for DC Microgrids Under Unknown External Disturbances","authors":"A. Basati, Jingxuan Wu, J. Guerrero, J. Vasquez","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898430","url":null,"abstract":"The applicability of a two-degree of freedom (DOF) internal model-based voltage control (IMVC) scheme for DC Microgrids (DCMGs) with unknown external disturbances is explored in this paper. One of the most challenging aspects of voltage control in DC/DC converters is maintaining voltage reference tracking under unknown external disturbances and measurement noise while the load changes simultaneously. This paper develops a voltage control framework to address these challenges by a plug-and-play internal model voltage controller for voltage-source converters (VSCs) at the primary level. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is evaluated by a MATLAB/Simulink testbed, considering unknown external disturbances under various rapid voltage reference changes and load profile changes in multiple case study scenarios.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124876453","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":"Investigation of Three-level Dual Output T-type NPC for EV Application","authors":"Dhawal Dwivedi, Indrasis Roy, K. Chinmaya","doi":"10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SEST53650.2022.9898482","url":null,"abstract":"The use of inverter in drive train is becoming popular in medium to high power EV applications. Special purpose EVs such as four wheel drive SUVs and all-terrain electric vehicles (ATVs) use multiple motors in their drive train system. Thus, a multi-output inverter with multilevel topology can be employed to decrease the cost and increase the reliability. The traction motors used in EV application need to be controlled in closed loop fashion in order to obtain better dynamic response. In this paper, a three-level dual output voltage (TL-DOV) inverter is presented, that can independently control two three-phase motors in closed loop. The TL-DOV can generate low-ripple current waveforms with controllable amplitude, frequency and phases. The disadvantage of requiring multiple DC sources is also mitigated. Field-oriented control is implemented to control the speed % torque of the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). The performance of TL-DOV is compared with a conventional NPC using MATLABSimulink.","PeriodicalId":397494,"journal":{"name":"2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131567911","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}