Distributed Control Approaches for Power Systems

The energy industry is undergoing through a reconstruction from a monopolistic electricity market to a more open and transactive one. The next ­generation grid is a level playing field in terms of electricity transactions, where all customers have an equal opportunity. The emerging concepts of electricity prosumers are expected to have a significant impact on the retail electricity market. As a result, there is an urgent need to control the interactions among numerous consumers and pro­sumers. The existing control approaches can be divided into three categories, namely, centralized control, decentralized control, and distributed control. The majority of existing literature focuses on the centralized control. In most cases, the dedicated communication links are required to ex­change data between the central controller and the local agents. The centralized control approaches are suitable for relatively small­-scale systems without reconstructing the existing communication and control networks. However, as the number of consumers and prosumers are increasing to hun­dreds of thousands, there are some technical barriers on the centralized control-­based economic operations such as heavy computation burden and single point of failure. The decentralized control is an intermediate solution to address the above mentioned challenges. The overall objective is to maximize the benefits of local agents and there is no guarantee that the decisions made by each local agents can contribute to the global optimal decision of the entire system. The distributed control has the potential to solve the economic operation problems of multiple consumers and prosumers. Lo­cal agents can share information through two-­way communication links in order to find the global optimal decision. Application of distributed control methods in power system increase system’s scalability, alleviate monopoly and monopsony, improve the privacy and distribute computational load among various entities.Ph.D.College of Engineering & Computer ScienceUniversity of Michigan-Dearbornhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151932/1/Hajir Pourbabak Final Dissertation.pdfDescription of Hajir Pourbabak Final Dissertation.pdf : Dissertatio

Distributed cooperative control for economic operation of multiple plug‐in electric vehicle parking decks

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Fully distributed AC power flow (ACPF) algorithm for distribution systems

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Novel Consensus-based Distributed Algorithm

This paper proposes a novel consensus-based distributed control algorithm for solving the economic dispatch problem of distributed generators. A legacy central controller can be eliminated in order to avoid a single point of failure, relieve computational burden, maintain data privacy, and support plug-and-play functionalities

The Next-Generation U.S. Retail Electricity Market with Customers and Prosumers—A Bibliographical Survey

Due to the rapidly-changing technologies in the power industry, many new references addressing the frameworks and business models of the next-generation retail electricity market are entering the research community. In particular, considering new customers with considerable demand response awareness and so-called prosumers with localized power generation based on distributed energy resources (DERs), the next-generation retail electricity market infrastructure will be a level playing field for local energy transactions, strategic pricing scheme design, new business model design and building an innovative energy ecosystem. Consequently, there is an urgent need to keep track of international experiences and activities taking place in the field of the market mechanism design problem at the distribution level. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of recent technology developments and aims to inspire awareness of the further deregulation of the electricity market, especially in areas close to customers. We mainly bring attention to the more than 90 articles published during the past five years. The collected literature has been divided into different sections to discuss different aspects of the next-generation retail electricity market under the deregulated power industry