A Review of Communication Failure Impacts on Adaptive Microgrid Protection Schemes and the Use of Energy Storage as a Contingency

Habib, Hany F.; Lashway, Christopher R.; Mohammed, Osama A.

doi:10.1109/tia.2017.2776858

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“…2) Link Failure Identification and Protection for SG Resilience: The protection and correct functioning of microgrid depends upon reliable, fast, and robust communication system [49]. Without such a communication system, there may be severe damage to microgrid hardware, thus leading to increase productivity cost and financial reparations.…”

Section: Open Issues Challenges and Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

Rehmani

Davy

Jennings

et al. 2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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The current power grid is no longer a feasible solution due to ever-increasing user demand of electricity, old infrastructure, and reliability issues and thus require transformation to a better grid a.k.a., smart grid (SG). The key features that distinguish SG from the conventional electrical power grid are its capability to perform two-way communication, demand side management, and real time pricing. Despite all these advantages that SG will bring, there are certain issues which are specific to SG communication system. For instance, network management of current SG systems is complex, time consuming, and done manually. Moreover, SG communication (SGC) system is built on different vendor specific devices and protocols. Therefore, the current SG systems are not protocol independent, thus leading to interoperability issue. Software defined network (SDN) has been proposed to monitor and manage the communication networks globally. By separating the control plane from the data plane, SDN helps the network operators to manage the network flexibly. Since SG heavily relies on communication networks, therefore, SDN has also paved its way into the SG. By applying SDN in SG systems, efficiency and resiliency can potentially be improved. SDN, with its programmability, protocol independence, and granularity features, can help the SG to integrate different SG standards and protocols, to cope with diverse communication systems, and to help SG to perform traffic flow orchestration and to meet specific SG quality of service requirements. This article serves as a comprehensive survey on SDN-based SGC. In this article, we first discuss taxonomy of advantages of SDNbased SGC. We then discuss SDN-based SGC architectures, along with case studies. Our article provides an in-depth discussion on routing schemes for SDN-based SGC. We also provide detailed survey of security and privacy schemes applied to SDN-based SGC. We furthermore present challenges, open issues, and future research directions related to SDN-based SGC. Index Terms-Software defined network (SDN), smart grid (SG), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), renewable energy resources (RERs), home area networks (HANs), network management.

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Section: Open Issues Challenges and Future Research Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

Rehmani

Davy

Jennings

et al. 2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

182

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“…It also necessitates conducting power flow studies and carrying out short circuit analysis for each configuration that might occur. For adjusting the settings and characteristics, fast and effective communication infrastructure should be in place [29].…”

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Microgrid Protection Systems

Ramamoorty¹,

Lalitha²

2019

Micro-Grids - Applications, Operation, Control and Protection

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Micro grids are miniature version of conventional large power grids functioning either autonomously or with inter connection to the main grid. Primary function of micro grid is to serve power at distribution level. Distributed energy resources (DERs) connected to the micro grid enables reliable and efficient operation of micro grid. Protection of micro grids assumed importance due to increased penetration of distributed energy resources. Most of the distribution systems in earlier days are radial in nature and protection systems are designed for that. These protection systems pose serious challenges when applied to present day distribution systems which are mesh connected and fed by the distributed energy resources. Limitation of the conventional protection scheme demands new insights and methodologies for micro grid protection. Due to intermediate current injection from DERs the conventional coordination of over current (O/C) relays is not possible. Further in meshed systems the fault current flow is bidirectional. Hence the protection of micro grid systems with DERs require different approach to ensure faults are cleared in less time and minimal number of consumers connected to the system are affected. A comprehensive analysis of the suitable techniques applicable for micro grid protection is presented in this chapter.

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“…Although adaptive protection is an effective approach for both the operating modes of a microgrid, outages of communication channels and cyber security threats are its major drawbacks. In [166], an adaptive protection scheme considering the existing ESSs in a network is designed to increase resiliency against communication failures. Further analysis aimed at designing a robust adaptive protection scheme that can efficiently respond in terms of uncertainty in both modes of a microgrid operation is still needed.…”

Section: Challenges Of Microgridsmentioning

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Evolution of Microgrids with Converter-Interfaced Generations: Challenges and Opportunities

Hossain¹,

Pota²,

Hossain³

et al. 2018

Preprint

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Although microgrids facilitate the increased penetration of distributed generations (DGs) and improve the security of power supplies, they have some issues that need to be better understood and addressed before realising the full potential of microgrids. This paper presents a comprehensive list of challenges and opportunities supported by a literature review on the evolution of converter-based microgrids. The discussion in this paper presented with a view to establishing microgrids as distinct from the existing distribution systems. This is accomplished by, firstly, describing the challenges and benefits of using DG units in a distribution network and then those of microgrid ones. Also, the definitions, classifications and characteristics of microgrids are revised according to their specific roles to provide a sound basis for novice researchers to undertake ongoing research on microgrids.

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A Review of Communication Failure Impacts on Adaptive Microgrid Protection Schemes and the Use of Energy Storage as a Contingency

Cited by 139 publications

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Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

Software Defined Networks-Based Smart Grid Communication: A Comprehensive Survey

Microgrid Protection Systems

Evolution of Microgrids with Converter-Interfaced Generations: Challenges and Opportunities

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