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To fully learn the latent temporal dependencies from post-disturbance system dynamic trajectories, deep learning is utilized for short-term voltage stability (STVS) assessment of power systems in this paper. First of all, a semi-supervised…

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Increasing adoption of smart meters and phasor measurement units (PMUs) in power distribution networks are enabling the adoption of data-driven/model-less control schemes to mitigate grid issues such as over/under voltages and power-flow…

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In modern smart grids, charging of local energy storage devices is coordinated on a residential level to compensate the volatile aggregated power demand on the time interval of interest. However, this results in a perpetual usage of all…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Philipp Sauerteig , Yuning Jiang , Boris Houska , Karl Worthmann

Uncertainty and variability of renewable energy sources present an imperative technical challenge for Electrical Distribution Utilities. Power Quality indices represent quality of energy delivered and reliability. In this work, a control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Surya Chandan Dhulipala , Arturo Bretas , Enrique Baeyens

Smart energy networks provide for an effective means to accommodate high penetrations of variable renewable energy sources like solar and wind, which are key for deep decarbonisation of energy production. However, given the variability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Cephas Samende , Zhong Fan , Jun Cao

Modern power networks face increasing challenges in controlling their transient frequency behavior at acceptable levels due to low inertia and highly-dynamic units. This paper presents a distributed control strategy regulated on a subset of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Yifu Zhang , Jorge Cortes

With the gradual transformation of power generation towards renewables, distributed energy resources are becoming more and more relevant for grid stabilization. In order to involve all participants in the joint solution of this challenging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Lukas Kölsch , Katharina Wieninger , Stefan Krebs , Sören Hohmann

This paper considers the problem of voltage regulation in distribution networks. The primary motivation is to keep voltages within preassigned operating limits by commanding the reactive power output of distributed energy resources (DERs)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-22 Guido Cavraro , Zhenyi Yuan , Manish K. Singh , Jorge Cortés

The unique problems and phenomena in the distributed voltage control of large-scale power distribution systems with extremely-high DER-penetration are targeted in this paper. First, a DER-explicit distribution network model and voltage…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-21 Ying Xu , Zhihua Qu

As electric vehicle (EV) adoption is growing year after year, there is no doubt that EVs will occupy a significant portion of transporting vehicle in the near future. Although EVs have benefits for environment, large amount of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Yingqi Xiong , Behnam Khaki , Chi-cheng Chu , Rajit Gadh

Due to the increasing load demand, the operating state of modern power systems are become closing to their critical levels. Moreover, the modern power systems are integrated with a large amount of fast-response dynamic elements, so the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Wenlu Zhao

We address the problem of controlling the reactive power setpoints of a set of distributed energy resources (DERs) in a power distribution network so as to mitigate the impact of variability in uncontrolled power injections associated with,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia , Madi Zholbaryssov , Temitope Amuda , Olaoluwapo Ajala

In the context of dynamic virtual power plants (DVPPs), the integration of frequency containment reserve (FCR) and fast frequency control (FFC) enabled via local compensation of power imbalance represents a significant advancement in…

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The energy consumption issue in distributed computing systems has become quite critical due to environmental concerns. In response to this, many energy-aware scheduling algorithms have been developed primarily by using the dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Masnida Emami , Yashar Ghiasi , Nasrin Jaberi

Electric Vehicles (EVs) offer substantial flexibility for grid services, yet large-scale, uncoordinated charging can threaten voltage stability in distribution networks. Existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches for smart charging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Stavros Orfanoudakis , Frans A. Oliehoek , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

Distribution grids are challenged by rapid voltage fluctuations induced by variable power injections from distributed energy resources (DERs). To regulate voltage, the IEEE Standard 1547 recommends each DER inject reactive power according…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Sarthak Gupta , Vassilis Kekatos , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

The energy landscape for the Low-Voltage (LV) networks are beginning to change; changes resulted from the increase penetration of renewables and/or the predicted increase of electric vehicles charging at home. The previously passive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Maizura Mokhtar , Valentin Robu , David Flynn , Ciaran Higgins , Jim Whyte , Caroline Loughran , Fiona Fulton

Fast-acting smart inverters that utilize preset operating conditions to determine real and reactive power injection/consumption can create voltage instabilities (over-voltage, voltage oscillations and more) in an electrical distribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Shammya Shananda Saha , Daniel Arnold , Anna Scaglione , Eran Schweitzer , Ciaran Roberts , Sean Peisert , Nathan G. Johnson

Voltage control in power distribution networks has been greatly challenged by the increasing penetration of volatile and intermittent devices. These devices can also provide limited reactive power resources that can be used to regulate the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Hao Jan Liu , Wei Shi , Hao Zhu

Contemporary power grids are being challenged by rapid voltage fluctuations that are caused by large-scale deployment of renewable generation, electric vehicles, and demand response programs. In this context, monitoring the grid's operating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Liang Zhang , Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis