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This paper presents a speed controller using a fuzzy-logic controller (FLC) for indirect field oriented control (IFOC) of induction motor (IM) drives fed by a four-switch three-phase (FSTP) inverter. In the proposed approach, the IM drive system is fed by FSTP inverter instead of the traditional six-switch three-phase (SSTP) inverter for a cost-effective low power applications. The proposed FLC improves dynamic responses and, it is also designed with reduced computation burden. The complete IFOC scheme incorporating the FLC for IM drives fed by the proposed FSTP inverter is built in Matlab/Simulink and, it is also experimentally implemented in real-time using a DSP-DS1103 control board for a prototype 1.1 kW IM. The dynamic performance, robustness, and insensitivity of the proposed FLC with FSTP inverter fed IM drive is examined and compared to a traditional PI controller under speed tracking, load disturbances, and parameters variation, particularly at low speeds. It is found that the proposed FLC is more robust than the PI controller under load disturbances, and parameters variation. Moreover, the proposed FSTP IM drive is comparable with a traditional SSTP IM drive, considering its good dynamic performance, cost reduction and low THD.

A multiobjective framework that optimises the uprating of the line's real-time thermal rating and capacity of battery storage against wind curtailment, network ageing and reliability is proposed. The two enhancements are limited to the accumulated expected amount and duration of wind power losses of each wind farm bus. In the framework, actual conductor properties, line failures due to thermal effects, weather data, battery operation policy and wind farm model are considered. The trade-off of the optimisation criteria, the Pareto front, is solved using the non-sorting genetic algorithm and fuzzy decision-making method. Results show that the conductor maximum allowable temperature affects all the three optimisation parameters, but battery efficiency only affects wind curtailment level.

Battery energy storage systems (BESS), demand response (DR) and the dynamic thermal rating (DTR) system have increasingly played important roles in power grids worldwide. In addition to storing energy, BESS can supply peak demands, thereby reducing the frequency of load interruptions and deferring new asset investments. However, study on the precise BESS sizing (i.e. energy and power ratings) to supply peak demands to improve the security of supply of transmission networks is still lacking. The combined efficacy of BESS, DR and DTR have also never been studied, because their simultaneous deployment has never been considered. The first contribution of this paper is proposing a probabilistic evaluation method to evaluate various combinations of BESS power ratings and energy capacities and determines their impacts on the reliability of transmission networks, in which peak demands are supported by charges stored in BESSs to address the security of supply problem. The second contribution extends the proposed method to examine the effects of deploying BESS alongside DR and DTR. Our results show that the security of power supply improves along with BESS sizing by as much as 37.2%, and that its reliability becomes more significant as its capability grows, with bigger BESS having more detrimental effects towards EENS as it becomes unavailable than smaller BESS does. DTR and DR reduce the requirements of BESS sizing without adversely affecting network reliability.