Grid Automation Enabling Prompt Restoration
Title
Grid Automation Enabling Prompt Restoration
Subject
Automation
Costs
Optimization
Reliability
Resilience
Resource management
Smart grids
Description
Grid automation, especially the installation of remote‐
controlled switches (RCSs), plays a critical role in fast electric service recovery, which is an essential requirement for reliable and resilient power grids against natural disasters. This chapter presents a new approach to grid automation planning that allocates RCSs to improve the restoration performance and optimize resilience and reliability benefits with appropriate cost. Particularly, the optimal number and locations of to‐
be‐
upgraded switches can be determined by the approach for different objectives: to maximize the reduction in customer interruption cost
to maximize the reduction in system average interruption duration index
or to maximize loads that can be recovered by the grid automation system with upgraded RCSs. The chapter shows that actually these grid automation optimization problems can be formulated as mixed‐
integer convex programming models. It also introduces a novel method for equivalently transforming and efficiently solving each of these optimization models.
85-118
Creator
Shunbo Lei
Chong Wang
Yunhe Hou
Publisher
Power Grid Resilience against Natural Disasters: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Date
2023
Type
bookSection
Identifier
978-1-119-80151-1
Collection
Citation
Shunbo Lei, Chong Wang, and Yunhe Hou, “Grid Automation Enabling Prompt Restoration,” Lamar University Midstream Center Research, accessed May 14, 2024, https://lumc.omeka.net/items/show/26870.