Smart grid design for efficient and flexible power networks operation and control

Abstract

The modernization of the US electric power infrastructure, especially in lieu of its aging, overstressed networks; shifts in social, energy and environmental policies, and also new vulnerabilities, is a national concern. Our system are required to be more adaptive and secure more than every before. Consumers are also demanding increased power quality and reliability of supply and delivery. As such, power industries, government and national laboratories and consortia have developed increased interest in what is now called the Smart Grid of the future. The paper outlines Smart Grid intelligent functions that advance interactions of agents such as telecommunication, control, and optimization to achieve adaptability, self-healing, efficiency and reliability of power systems. The author also presents a special case for the development of Dynamic Stochastic Optimal Power Flow (DSOPF) technology as a tool needed in Smart Grid design. The integration of DSOPF to achieve the design goals with advanced DMS capabilities are discussed herein. This reference paper also outlines research focus for developing next generation of advance tools for efficient and flexible power systems operation and control.

A survey of communication/networking in Smart Grids

“…Agent-based micro-storage management for the Smart Grid [199] Agent technologies; optimization in storage of Smart Grid Smart Grid design for efficient and flexible power networks operation and control [200] Intelligent functions in Smart Grid operation and control, concepts of how to evaluate them…”

“…Momoh [200] argued that the Smart Grid system should be more adaptable and secure than it has been. Customers are now demanding high power quality and reliable power supply.…”

“…Customers are now demanding high power quality and reliable power supply. Therefore, they believed that the Smart Grid should use intelligent functions of advance interactions of agents, such as telecommunication, control, and optimization [200]. Since it is unclear what the concept of intelligence in the Smart Grid is and how it should be measured, they proposed the following goals of intelligent functions [200]:…”

Integration of alternative energy sources into digital micro‐grids

“…The functions of control and management of the power grid can be divided into three categories: a) monitoring, b) analysis, and c) control [39,40]. Monitoring refers to sensing of multiple parameters in different points of the power grid to determine its status, including the detection and localization of failures.…”

An Intelligent Self-Configurable Mechanism for Distributed Energy Storage Systems

“…Intelligent functions are expected to provide the smart grid with self-corrective and reconfiguration features, 2 by creating a more complex interaction behavior among intelligent devices [1].…”