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Utilizing energy storage solutions to reduce the need for traditional transmission investments has been recognized by system planners and supported by federal policies in recent years. This work demonstrates the need for detailed reliability assessment for quantitative comparison of the reliability benefits of energy storage and traditional transmission investments. First, a mixed-integer linear programming expansion planning model considering candidate transmission lines and storage technologies is solved to find the least-cost investment decisions. Next, operations under the resulting system configuration are simulated in a probabilistic reliability assessment which accounts for weather-dependent forced outages. The outcome of this work, when applied to TPPs, is to further equalize the consideration of energy storage compared to traditional transmission assets by capturing the value of storage for system reliability., Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

The convergence performance of distributed optimization algorithms is of significant importance to solve optimal power flow (OPF) in a distributed fashion. In this paper, we aim to provide some insights on how to partition a power system to achieve a high convergence rate of distributed algorithms for the solution of an OPF problem. We analyzed several features of the power network to find a set of suitable partitions with the aim of convergence performance improvement. We model the grid as a graph and decompose it based on the edge betweenness graph clustering. This technique provides several partitions. To find an effective partitioning, we merge the partitions obtained by clustering technique and analyze them based on characteristics of tie-lines connecting neighboring partitions. The main goal is to find the best set of partitions with respect to the convergence speed. We deploy analytical target cascading (ATC) method to distributedly solve optimization subproblems. We test the proposed algorithm on the IEEE 118-bus system. The results show that the algorithm converges faster with a proper partitioning, whereas improper partitioning leads to a large number of iterations

Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) is one of the most significant problems in secure and optimal operation of modern electricity markets. New sources of uncertainties such as wind speed volatility and price-sensitive loads impose additional challenges to this large-scale problem. This paper proposes a new Stochastic SCUC using point estimation method to model the power system uncertainties more efficiently. Conventional scenario-based Stochastic SCUC approaches consider the Mont Carlo method; which presents additional computational burdens to this large-scale problem. In this paper we use point estimation instead of scenario generating to detract computational burdens of the problem. The proposed approach is implemented on a six-bus system and on a modified IEEE 118-bus system with 94 uncertain variables. The efficacy of proposed algorithm is confirmed, especially in the last case with notable reduction in computational burden without considerable loss of precision., Comment: 7 pages