A suitable probabilistic scenario set of load demand and natural characteristics of renewable energy is becoming a crucial issue in power system planning studies. Properly addressing the impact of potentially thousands of residential PV plants on the…
The increasing penetration of behind-the-meter distributed energy resources opens up opportunities to improve distribution grids’ resilience and reliability. In this context, the paper studies islanded operation of radial low-voltage (LV)…
Distribution service restoration (DSR) is critical for improving the resilience and reliability of modern distribution systems by strategically and sequentially energizing the system components and customer loads. Restoring electricity service to…
The resilience and reliability of modern power systems are threatened by increasingly severe weather events and cyber-physical security events. An effective restoration methodology is desired to optimally integrate emerging smart grid technologies…
Microgrids have been considered an essential component for improving the efficiency, resilience and reliability of the evolving electric power grid. Their modularity adds to the operational flexibility of the system in addition to provision for…
Microgrid assets are built by utilities to improve the resilience and reliability of segments of the distribution system. Controllers with advanced capabilities will operate and control these microgrids with diverse energy technologies, which vary…
In this paper, an crude oil transportation planning problem for an oil distributor is studied, in which crude oil is transported by tankers and pipelines from an unlimited supply center to a set of customer harbors to satisfy their dynamic demands…
The natural gas network is important for residential heating, industrial manufacturing, and electricity generation. Although it is reliable and resilient to local disruptions, extreme situations, such as natural disasters and political conflicts, can…
The main objectives of this paper are to assess the impact of disturbances in a natural gas processing train in the upstream oil & gas fields and to validate a representative model which can be used for developing/testing a swift and anticipatory…
The proliferation of power-to-gas technology can propound a tailored platform to physically integrate power systems and natural gas grids. These integrated energy systems with different spatial-temporal properties not only could provide significant…
This article presents a new robust incentive-based integrated demand response (IDR) model for energy hub systems (EHSs). The considered incentive-based demand response (IBDR) schemes are interruptible/curtailable service and capacity market program.…
Due to technological advancement and growth around the globe, the global energy demand is growing continuously. The natural resources of energy such as fossil fuels are getting depleted day by day along with a high growth rate of energy consumption…
This article proposes distributed demand response (DR) approaches for a multienergy residential community, which is equipped with various energy conversion and storage devices to serve multiple residential loads (e.g., electricity, natural gas, and…
Chemical Lithium battery energy storage (BES) systems are considered as critical assets in providing flexibility and reliability for today's power and energy systems. However, BES degradation, which is due to the electrolyte reaction in lithium…
Microgrids provide multiple benefits to end-use customers and electric utilities, including enhanced reliability and resilience, reduced operational costs, streamlined renewable generation integration, and improved energy efficiency. However, the…
Electrification of rural islands is still a major challenge for many countries due to the inadequate and inchoate distribution of fossil fuels in conventional grid system. Even if these problems are eliminated, the high electricity cost makes rural…
In “The 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018” the California legislature set a target of 100% of California's electricity generated from renewable and zero-carbon sources by 2045. The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) and other state…
To solve the problem that the uncertainty of distributed generation output seriously affects the safe and stable operation of distribution network, heat load, as a potential flexibility resource, can improve flexibility and eliminate system…
The aggravation of global energy crisis and environmental pollution impels people to speed up the research of energy utilization. The multi-carrier energy system (MES) can greatly improve the energy utilization efficiency, the construction of Energy…
Integration of electricity and gas distribution networks improves energy utilization and alleviates environmental pollution. In order to obtain a reasonable energy prices and optimize the day-ahead scheduling scheme under the premise of considering…
The microgrid operation is addressed in this paper based on a multi-carrier energy hub. Natural gas, electricity, heating, cooling, hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and renewable energies are considered as the energy carriers. The purpose is to…
In the last decade, a number of severe urban power outages have been caused by extreme natural disasters, e.g., hurricanes, snowstorms and earthquakes, which highlights the need for rethinking current planning principles of urban energy systems and…
Traditional energy supply systems generally focus on energy storage, which ignore the coupling relationship and interaction among natural gas, heat energy and electrical energy. In this paper, an integrated energy system with various energy storage…
To improve the resilience of distribution networks (DNs), a multi-stage dynamic recovery strategy is proposed in this paper, which is designed for post-disaster DN considering an integrated energy system (IES) and transportation network (TN). First,…
In order to alleviate the shortage of natural gas supply in winter, relevant policies have been issued to promote the construction of gas peak-shaving and storage facilities. Large-scale gas storage can transfer the supply-demand relationship of…
Power is essential to the financial development and social improvement of any nation. Indigenous power sources must be created to the ideal level to reduce reliance on imported powers, subject to settling monetary, natural, and social requirements.…
We propose a multi-case, multi-period AC model to coordinate the procurement of grid services from an aggregation of connected distributed energy resources and microgrids. The proposed model aggregates the capabilities of all resources in the system…
Today's smart grid faces many challenges due to the rapid evolution of generation, distribution, and storage means which enable users to produce, store, and sell energy back to the providers. Demand response management plays a key role in achieving…
In this paper, we have investigated the impact of different plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) charger topologies on the fuel cost, network loss, and loss allocation of a gridconnected AC microgrid. The presence of distributed generation, both…
This paper introduces an optimal planning approach to find the size and the location of an energy storage system (ESS) among the power network buses and the expansion of transmission lines to host the wind power integration to serve the load demand…
The proliferation of distributed renewable generation poses many challenges to power distribution networks (DN), such as network congestion and voltage violations. Recent advances in battery technologies have made battery energy storage systems…
In this paper, an energy management system (EMS) has been developed based on model predictive control (MPC) to optimally dispatch the power units and particularly handle the duck curve fast ramping events. The methodology is specifically developed…
Energy storage systems (ESS) are considered among the key elements for mitigating the impact of renewable intermittency and improving the economics for establishing a sustainable power grid. The high cost combined with the need for optimal capacity…
Due to the close coupling between subsystems and complex energy flow, the distributed energy system is different from the traditional power grid in terms of optimal operation. Therefore, it is necessary to study the optimal operation strategy of…
In view of the development trend of nuclear power and offshore wind power in China's coastal areas, as well as the current situation of peak shaving pressure brought by reverse peak shaving of wind power to the power grid. In this paper, according to…
The evolving nature of electricity production, transmission, and consumption necessitates an update to the IEEE's Reliability Test System (RTS), which was last modernized in 1996. The update presented here introduces a generation mix more…
The traditional energy system has the disadvantages of high energy consumption and high emission. Through multiple energy networks interconnection and flexible energy conversion, the regional integrated energy system (RIES) can satisfy various energy…
Taking into account the quasi-dynamic characteristics of the thermal system can improve the complementary characteristics of the integrated energy system and reduce the operating costs. Firstly, by analyzing the quasidynamic characteristics of the…
This paper develops an optimal electricity-gas flow (OEGF) framework considering power line and pipeline congestions to coordinate the energy supplies, flexible electricity and gas loads, electricity and gas storages within an integrated electricity…
This article proposes a robust unit commitment (RUC) model for multiple types of energy sources based on the optimal uncertainty set. These energy sources are wind farms, thermal, hydro, natural gas, nuclear, and pumped-storage hydro power plants.…
Integrated electricity and gas energy systems are typical integrated energy systems (IES). In order to improve the resilience of IES in extreme events, an optimal placement method of gas turbines and gas storage systems in integrated electricity and…
With the development of society, environmental problems are becoming more and more serious. At the same time, with the wide application of integrated energy system, natural gas has replaced part of fossil energy. There are many uncertainties in power…
Microgrids (MGs) offer a new paradigm for the operation of electricity networks, allowing end users to significantly improve the power quality and, more importantly, reliability of their power supply systems. While it is clear that MGs offer a…
This article proposes an innovative integrated power and hydrogen distribution system (IPHDS) restoration model in response to multiple outages caused by natural disasters. During the restoration, repair crews and mobile battery-carried vehicles are…
To improve the resilience of distribution networks (DNs), a multi-stage dynamic recovery strategy is proposed in this paper, which is designed for post-disaster DN considering an integrated energy system (IES) and transportation network (TN). First,…
The cargo handling system is the second largest system of oil tanker, which directly operates on the cargo oil. By assessing its health status, it can grasp the deterioration trend of the system equipment, and then early warn the fault to take…
In this paper, an crude oil transportation planning problem for an oil distributor is studied, in which crude oil is transported by tankers and pipelines from an unlimited supply center to a set of customer harbors to satisfy their dynamic demands…
Accurate short-term prediction of the natural gas load is of great significance to the operation and allocation of the pipeline network. Because the short-term natural gas load has obvious nonlinearity and randomness, the traditional regression model…
Corrosion of oil tubular goods is becoming more and more serious in the exploitation of oil and gas wells, so it is very significant to study new anti-corrosion materials of lined steel pipe. Aiming at the mechanical problem of lined steel pipe…
Dynamic thermal-hydraulic simulation models have been extensively used by process industry for decision support in sectors, such as power generation, mineral processing, pulp and paper, and oil and gas. Ever-growing competitiveness in the process…