Search

The increasing interactivity between energy carrier networks such as electrical, natural gas (NG), and heating can be appropriately used for improving the operation optimality along with overcoming some challenges of those systems. With such a view, this paper studies the practical issue of power transmission lines congestion management in integrated multicarrier energy systems (MCESs) and makes a comparison with the only electrical operation mode. The MCES consisting of electrical and NG network infrastructures with exchanged energy between them is modelled by considering the several local energy hubs and their electrical and heat loads. Rescheduling of energy sources (power plants and gas wells) and demand side management in both electrical and NG networks have been utilized as the two important tools in the developed congestion alleviation framework. The proposed method confirms that the provided flexibility in the integrated operation of the MCESs can lead to a remarkable reduction in the congestion management cost index. Implementing the proposed congestion management framework on an assumed test MCES with a combined 39‐bus New England power system and 20‐node Belgium NG system demonstrates its effectiveness and applicability for the system operators. The issue of power transmission lines congestion management in integrated multi‐carrier energy systems (MCESs) has been studied. The proposed method confirms that the provided flexibility in the integrated operation of the MCESs can lead to reduction in the congestion management cost. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to high wind power penetration into power system, synchronous generators may no longer be the dominant generation, which implicitly requires participation of wind power plants (WPPs) in the load-frequency control (LFC). Frequency, a common variable throughout the entire power system, is the key variable for LFC, which causes equal contribution of all distant and nearby WPPs in LFC. Power transfer from distant WPPs to the event location may overload the middle transmission lines leading to cascading failures. This study proposes an online dispatch rescheduling algorithm for WPPs participating in the LFC task to prevent over loading of transmission lines and hence cascading failures following severe frequency contingencies. The WPP dispatch limits are calculated based on line ampacity for each generation unit participating in the LFC task. Numerical simulations carried out in DigSilent PowerFactory on 39 bus IEEE standard test system, demonstrates the efficiency of suggested online dispatch rescheduling technique for keeping the loading rate of transmission lines, bus voltages and system frequency in range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The photovoltaic (PV) hosting capacity of active distribution networks is usually restricted by network overvoltage at peak PV generation hours. In the literature, several methodologies are presented to mitigate this problem caused by PVs reactive power regulation. However, the feeder transformer's thermal limit and branch lines loading confine the PVs reactive power capability. This study proposes a fully local reactive power regulation strategy enabling the PV systems to increase the feeder hosting capacity without using communication infrastructure. In the suggested framework, the distribution feeder is partitioned into several zones based on the feeder's electrical bottlenecks from the perspective of lines loading condition. The PV units placed in the vicinity of the electrical bottlenecks are equipped with the proposed local controller to moderate burden on the corresponding bottlenecks. Other PV units support the network voltage using a conventional local voltage-dependent reactive power controller. Consequently, the feeder hosting capacity can be enhanced while equipment loadings remain in their permissible limits. Moreover, the network power loss is decreased due to the local reactive power management. Furthermore, the proposed approach provides superior coordination between the PV systems controller and the transformer feeder tap changing mechanism. The advantages of the proposed approach are demonstrated by simulation results on 33- and 69-node radial and meshed distribution feeders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]