Regarded as a long-term, large capacity energy storage solution, commercialized power-to-gas (PtG) technology has attracted much research attention in recent years. PtG plants and natural gas-fired power plants can form a close loop between an electric power system and a natural gas network. An interconnected multi-energy system is believed to be a solution to the future...
One of the main factors impacting the reliability of energy systems nowadays is the growing interdependence between electricity and gas networks due to the increase in the installation of gas-fired units. Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) models are used to economically schedule generating units without compromising the system reliability. This paper proposes a novel...
The growing installation of natural gas fired power plants has increased the integration of natural gas and electricity sectors. This has driven the need investigate the interactions among them and to optimize energy resources management from a centralized planning perspective. Thus, a combined modeling of the reservoirs involved in electric power and gas systems and their...
Transmission congestion management became a grievous issue with the increase of competitiveness in the power systems. Competitiveness arises due to restructuring of the utilities along with the penetration of auxiliary services. The present study depicts a multi objective technique for achieving the optimal capacities of distributed generators (DG) such as solar, wind and biomass...
The increasing interdependency of electricity and natural gas systems promotes coordination of the two systems for ensuring operational security and economics. This paper proposes a robust day-ahead scheduling model for the optimal coordinated operation of integrated energy systems while considering key uncertainties of the power system and natural gas system operation cost...
The increasing integration of variable wind generation has aggravated the imbalance between electricity supply and demand. Power-to-hydrogen (P2H) is a promising solution to balance supply and demand in a variable power grid, in which excess wind power is converted into hydrogen via electrolysis and stored for later use. In this study, an energy hub (EH) with both a P2H facility...
This paper aims to optimize total energy costs in an operational model of a novel energy hub (EH) in a residential area. The optimization problem is set up based on daily load demand (such as electricity, heat, and cooling) and time-of-use (TOU) energy prices. The extended EH model considers the involvement of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation, solar heat exchanger (SHE), and a...
In this paper, a data-driven stochastic subspace identification (SSI-DATA) technique is proposed as an advanced stochastic system identification (SSI) to extract the inter-area oscillation modes of a power system from wide-area measurements. For accurate and robust extraction of the modes’ parameters (frequency, damping and mode shape), SSI has already been verified as an...
In order to enhance the stability of single-phase microgrid, virtual synchronous generator (VSG) control method is investigated in this paper. Its electromagnetic model and electromechanical model are established to illustrate the performance of VSG. Considering the 2nd fluctuation of fundamental-frequency in the output power, an instantaneous power calculation strategy is...
With the development of electricity market mechanism and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand response has become an important alternative solution to improving power system reliability and efficiency. In this paper, the agent-based modelling and simulation method is applied to explore the impact of symmetric market mechanism and demand response on electricity market...
In this paper, a non-isolated stacked bidirectional DC-DC converter with zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) is introduced for the high step-up/step-down conversion systems. The extremely narrow turn-on and/or turn-off duty cycle existing in the conventional bidirectional buck-boost converters can be extended due to the stacked module configuration for large voltage conversion ratio...
Various residential electricity pricing strategies provide diverse methods for calculating consumption costs. Due to the existence of electricity company monopolies and single residential electricity pricing systems, residents of certain areas have no option but to accept the electricity pricing offered to them. Based on local residential electricity pricing strategies, a virtual...
The historical information of loadings on substation helps in evaluation of size of photovoltaic (PV) generation and energy storages for peak shaving and distribution system upgrade deferral. A method, based on consumption data, is proposed to separate the unusual consumption and to form the clusters of similar regular consumption. The method does optimal partition of the load...
From the perspective of transactive energy, the energy trading among interconnected microgrids (MGs) is promising to improve the economy and reliability of system operations. In this paper, a distributed energy management method for interconnected operations of combined heat and power (CHP)-based MGs with demand response (DR) is proposed. First, the system model of operational...
To deal with uncertainties of renewable energy, demand and price signals in real-time microgrid operation, this paper proposes a model predictive control strategy for microgrid economic dispatch, where hourly schedule is constantly optimized according to the current system state and latest forecast information. Moreover, implicit network topology of the microgrid and...
With the gradually widely usage of the air conditioning (AC) loads in developing countries, the urban power grid load has swiftly increased over the past decade. Especially in China, the AC load has accounted for over 30% of the maximum load in many cities during summer. This paper proposes a scheme of constructing a virtual peaking unit (VPU) by public buildings’ cool storage...
The uncertainty of wind power forecasting significantly influences power systems with high percentage of wind power generation. Despite the wind power forecasting error causation, the temporal and spatial dependence of prediction errors has done great influence in specific applications, such as multistage scheduling and aggregated wind power integration. In this paper, Pair...
Forecasting error amending is a universal solution to improve short-term wind power forecasting accuracy no matter what specific forecasting algorithms are applied. The error correction model should be presented considering not only the nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics of forecasting errors but also the field application adaptability problems. The kernel recursive...
This paper describes a practical approach to identify nodal price compensation payment for nodal consumers willing to reduce their energy consumption (consumers’ demand response). The implementation of a nodal reliability service pricing is based on contingency assessment of N − 2 order for transmission lines. A representative annualized demand curve is used to reflect the system...
There is an increasing interest in exploiting the flexibility of loads to provide ancillary services to the grid. In this paper we study how response delays and lockout constraints affect the controllability of an aggregation of refrigerators offering primary frequency control (PFC). First we examine the effect of delays in PFC provision from an aggregation of refrigerators...
Over the last few years, lots of attentions have been given to the demand response (DR) for the frequency control. DR can be incorporated with traditional frequency control method and enhance the stability of the system. In this paper, the frequency control strategy of DR for a multi-area power system is specially designed. In order to quickly stabilize the frequency of different...
Thermostatically controlled appliances (TCAs) have great thermal storage capability and are therefore excellent demand response (DR) resources to solve the problem of power fluctuation caused by renewable energy. Traditional centralized management is affected by communication quality severely and thus usually has poor real-time control performance. To tackle this problem, a...
In the near future, various types of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) are expected to be widely employed throughout the United Kingdom. However, the effect that these technologies will have at a household level on the existing low voltage (LV) network is still an area of extensive research. We propose an agent based model that estimates the growth of LCTs within local...
Demand response is a basic tool used to develop modern power systems and electricity markets. Residential and commercial segments account for 40%–50% of the overall electricity demand. These segments need to overcome major obstacles before they can be included in a demand response portfolio. The objective of this paper is to tackle some of the technical barriers and explain how...