Ambient Signals based Load Modeling with Combined Gradient-based Optimization and Regression Method

Load modeling has been an important issue in modeling a power system. Ambient signals based load modeling approach has recently been proposed to better track the time-varying changes of load models caused by the increasing uncertain factors in power loads. To improve the computation efficiency and the model structure complexity of the previous approaches, a combined gradient-based optimization and regression method is proposed in this paper to identify the load model parameters from ambient signals. An open static load model structure in which various static load models can be applied, together with the induction motor as the dynamic load model, are selected as the composite load model structure for parameter identification. Then, the static load model parameters are identified through regression, after which the induction motor parameters can be obtained through optimization with the regression residuals being the objective function. After the transformation of the induction motor model, the objective function is quasiconvex in most of the feasible region so that the gradient-based optimization algorithm can be applied. The case study results in Guangdong Power Grid have shown the effectiveness and the improvement in computation efficiency of the proposed approach.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figure