N. Miller, D. Manz, Harjeet Johal, S. Achilles, Leon R. Roose, J. P. Griffin
{"title":"Integrating high levels of wind in island systems: Lessons form Hawaii","authors":"N. Miller, D. Manz, Harjeet Johal, S. Achilles, Leon R. Roose, J. P. Griffin","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082229","url":null,"abstract":"Variability of power generation from intermittent resources such as wind and solar plants presents an operational challenge for grid operators. The economic incentives and technical challenges that accompany large amounts of variable generation in island power systems are often much greater. The Hawaiian Electric Company and its subsidiaries, the Maui Electric Company and the Hawaii Electric Light Company have considerable experience in planning and operating power systems with relatively high levels of wind power. The islands of Hawaii and Maui operate power systems with high levels of wind power (more than 10% by energy) and have experienced and addressed challenges associated with the variability and uncertainty of wind power. The island of Maui is anticipating further wind plant deployments in the near future. Recent analyses of possible near-term deployment of large amounts of wind power on the Oahu power system (500MW of wind power; approximately 1200MW peak and 520MW minimum annual load) has shown the potential for this system to accept almost 25% of its energy from wind and solar power. This paper will identify some of the wind integration challenges and highlight the benefits of a variety of strategies that are expected to improve system economics and operational reliability, including proposed modifications to the baseload thermal fleet (deeper turndown, higher ramp rates, and tuned droop characteristics), advanced wind turbine grid support features, new operating strategies, wind forecasting and refinements to the up and down reserve requirements. This paper will present the key findings in the context of useful insights and lessons learned that are relevant to other island power systems considering very high levels of wind power.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126526233","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":"Two-layered EPSO for maximizing loadability with FACTS devices","authors":"H. Mori, H. Fujita","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082237","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an efficient method for maximizing power system loadability with the optimal allocation of FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission System) devices. In recent years, renewable energy such as PV systems and wind power generation is positively introduced into power systems to reduce the emission of CO2. However, such generation units are inclined to provide variable output due to the change of weather conditions. In this paper, a hybrid meta-heuristic method is proposed to determine the optimal allocation and the optimal variable output of FACTS devices under variable generations to maximize loadability at the specified nodes. The proposed method is based on two-layered Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization (TLEPSO) to solve the nonlinear mixed integer problem of the optimal allocation of FACTS devices. To consider the uncertainty of PV systems, the Monte-Carlo simulation is carried out to evaluate the probabilistic characteristics of loadability at the specified node in probabilistic power system conditions. The proposed method is successfully applied to a sample system.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123876180","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. Moschakis, E. Karfopoulos, E. Zountouridou, S. Papathanassiou
{"title":"Adapting EV-microgrid concepts to european grid standards related to power quality","authors":"M. Moschakis, E. Karfopoulos, E. Zountouridou, S. Papathanassiou","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082206","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the adaption of Microgrid and Electric Vehicle concepts to European grid standards related to power quality. It presents a review of European norms on power quality issues including converters and EVs. Power quality issues and relevant standards dealing with the operation of EVs are discussed for interconnected and islanded (microgrid) mode of operation. Moreover, a review of connection criteria of Distributed Generation units and power quality requirements in various European countries is listed. Finally, recommendations on the adaption of microgrid-EV concepts to European power quality standards are given.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124191811","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":"Heuristic optimal restoration based on constructive algorithms for future smart grids","authors":"S. Adhikari, F. Li, Qinran Hu, Zhenyuan Wang","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082202","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a heuristic optimization algorithm for online restoration for future smart grids based on constructive approaches to reinstate supply to the loads following a fault. The algorithm tries to minimize the total switching operations for the post-fault restoration strategy. This algorithm is also compared with the one in a previous work which tends to minimize the loading imbalance among all available substations. The proposed algorithm is based on the constructive network tracing approach that comes up with the final network restoration strategy. This is achieved by determining the switching sequences of switchable components such as circuit breakers, reclosers, sectionalizers, or intelligently controlled switches. Sample systems are studied to demonstrate the method. The results obtained from the constructive methods are compared with the ones from the enumeration method. The comparison verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124973879","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. A. Carvalho, C. H. V. Moraes, G. Lambert-Torres, L. E. B. D. Silva, A. R. Aoki, A. Vivaldi
{"title":"Transforming continuous attributes using GA for applications of Rough Set Theory to control centers","authors":"M. A. Carvalho, C. H. V. Moraes, G. Lambert-Torres, L. E. B. D. Silva, A. R. Aoki, A. Vivaldi","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082230","url":null,"abstract":"One of the possible application of Rough Sets Theory (RST) is the knowledge extraction in databases. Also, RST is useful to develop models for decision-making. During both processes one of the steps is the transformation of attributes with continuous values in digital values. This transformation sometimes can lose information. This paper presents a method for this transformation using genetic algorithms (GA). GA is used to determine the cut-off points for each attribute, getting a consistent transformation. An application in Control Centers with real data is presented.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129128973","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 data-mining based methodology for win forecasting","authors":"S. Ramos, J. Soares, Z. Vale, H. Morais","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082223","url":null,"abstract":"In many countries the use of renewable energy is increasing due to the introduction of new energy and environmental policies. Thus, the focus on the efficient integration of renewable energy into electric power systems is becoming extremely important. Several European countries have already achieved high penetration of wind based electricity generation and are gradually evolving towards intensive use of this generation technology.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129175336","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 pareto optimization approach of a Gaussian process ensemble for short-term load forecasting","authors":"M. Alamaniotis, A. Ikonomopoulos, L. Tsoukalas","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082231","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate prediction of load demand remains a challenge for efficient power distribution and becomes critical in the context of smart grid management when the presence of stochastic sources adds to the stochasticity of demand. Short-term load forecasting involving demand prediction in the range of hours or days is of special interest to generators and power customers. A number of methods has been developed for fast and accurate electric power forecasting. Among others, Gaussian process (GP) regression has been used for prediction in the nonlinear problems with promising results. On that direction, an ensemble of Gaussian process regressors modeled as kernel machines is proposed for load forecasting. The use of different kernels accommodates the construction of a group composed of different predictors and its evolution using genetic algorithms. The proposed approach takes the form of a multiobjective problem in which the objectives consist of a set of criteria. In order to optimize all the criteria it needs to use Pareto optimality to identify an accepted solution. The results obtained show that the ensemble of GP predictors outperforms each individual forecaster.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"284 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121268275","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. Reyes, P. H. Ibarguengoytia, F. Elizalde, Liliana Sanchez, Alondra Nava
{"title":"ASISTO: An integrated intelligent assistant system for power plant operation and training","authors":"A. Reyes, P. H. Ibarguengoytia, F. Elizalde, Liliana Sanchez, Alondra Nava","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082189","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present ASISTO, an intelligent assistant system for power plant operation and training based on probabilistic graphical models. Its main advantage is that it provides on-line guidance in the form of ordered recommendations, sensor validation capabilities, and explanation features, all for uncertain environments. The system allows dealing with abnormal situations, non-expected events, or the occurrence of process transients. The different modules of the system are based on Markov decision processes, Bayesian networks, and knowledge representation using the object-oriented paradigm. Functional results for each component of ASISTO using a power plant simulator are also presented.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122474713","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":"Situation-aware Demand Response in the smart grid","authors":"B. Magoutas, Dimitris Apostolou, G. Mentzas","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082176","url":null,"abstract":"The vision of the smart grid can provide the catalyst for radical progress when combined with information technology systems that have the ability to collect fine grained power usage data and translated them into input for decision support systems, which may in turn make energy monitoring and conservation a seamless extension of Web technology. An important element of the smart grid is Demand Response (DR) which includes all modifications to the consumption patterns of end customers be they price-induced or incentive-based. In this paper we argue that the research field of situation management provides appropriate methods for identifying and predicting DR situations, reasoning on their status, and taking the necessary actions. We outline an intelligent situation management approach and present an event-based software architecture for supporting these aspects of the smart grid.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"274 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125839327","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":"Natural optimization applied to medium-term hydrothermal coordination","authors":"V. H. Ferreira, G. H. C. Silva","doi":"10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISAP.2011.6082235","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the application of genetic algorithms and simulated annealing in order to solve the hydrothermal coordination problem through the optimal operation planning of large and nonlinear complex systems. Aiming to explore different solutions for this kind of problem, this paper suggests a comparison between the results of genetic algorithms and simulated annealing. The proposed techniques are applied in two hydrothermal test systems that are part of the Brazilian electric system, one composed by seven and other composed by fourteen hydro plants. The results show the effectiveness of the proposed techniques.","PeriodicalId":424662,"journal":{"name":"2011 16th International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127116802","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}