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Energy Storage as a Multi-Use Asset: Applications Across the Power System
Fabrizio Sossan
The energy transition in power systems requires flexible assets to offset renewable generation variability across multiple time scales, while supporting the integration of renewabl…
Scheduling Power-Intensive Operations of Battery Energy Storage Systems and Application to Hybrid Hydropower Plants
Stefano Cassano, Fabrizio Sossan
This paper proposes a novel set of power constraints for Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs), referred to as Dynamic Power Constraints (DPCs), that account for the voltage and c…
Computation of Ultra-Short-Term Prediction Intervals of the Power Prosumption in Active Distribution Networks
Plouton Grammatikos, Fabrizio Sossan, Jean-Yves Le Boudec +1
Microgrids and, in general, active distribution networks require ultra-short-term prediction, i.e., for sub-second time scales, for specific control decisions. Conventional forecas…
Model-less Robust Voltage Control in Active Distribution Networks using Sensitivity Coefficients Estimated from Measurements
Rahul Gupta, Fabrizio Sossan, Mario Paolone
Measurement-rich power distribution networks may enable distribution system operators (DSOs) to adopt model-less and measurement-based monitoring and control of distributed energy…
Optimal Planning of Single-Port and Multi-Port Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks
Biswarup Mukherjee, Fabrizio Sossan
This paper describes a method based on mixed-integer linear programming to cost-optimally locate and size chargers for electric vehicles (EVs) in distribution grids as a function o…
Model Predictive Control for a Medium-head Hydropower Plant Hybridized with Battery Energy Storage to Reduce Penstock Fatigue
Stefano Cassano, Fabrizio Sossan
A hybrid hydropower power plant is a conventional HydroPower Plant (HPP) augmented with a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to decrease the wear and tear of sensitive mechanical…
Stress-informed Control of Medium- and High-head Hydropower Plants to Reduce Penstock Fatigue
Stefano Cassano, Fabrizio Sossan
The displacement of conventional generation in favor of stochastic renewable requires increasing regulation duties from the remaining dispatchable resources. In high- and medium-he…
Performance Assessment of Linear Models of Hydropower Plants
Stefano Cassano, Christian Landry, Christophe Nicolet +1
This paper discusses linearized models of hydropower plants (HPPs). First, it reviews state-of-the-art models and discusses their non-linearities, then it proposes suitable lineari…
Grid-aware Distributed Model Predictive Control of Heterogeneous Resources in a Distribution Network: Theory and Experimental Validation
Rahul Kumar Gupta, Fabrizio Sossan, Mario Paolone
In this paper, we propose and experimentally validate a scheduling and control framework for distributed energy resources (DERs) that achieves to track a day-ahead dispatch plan of…
Siting and Sizing of Energy Storage Systems: Towards a Unified Approach for Transmission and Distribution System Operators for Reserve Provision and Grid Support
Stefano Massucco, Paola Pongiglione, Federico Silvestro +2
This paper presents a method to determine the optimal location, energy capacity, and power rating of distributed battery energy storage systems at multiple voltage levels to accomp…
Effect of Voltage Source Converters with Electrochemical Storage Systems on Dynamics of Reduced-inertia Bulk Power Grids
Yihui Zuo, Mario Paolone, Fabrizio. Sossan
A major concern associated to the massive connection of distributed energy resources is the increasing share of power electronic interfaces resulting in the global inertia reductio…
Optimal Provision of Concurrent Primary Frequency and Local Voltage Control from a BESS Considering Variable Capability Curves: Modelling and Experimental Assessment
Antonio Zecchino, Zhao Yuan, Fabrizio Sossan +2
This paper proposes a control method for battery energy storage systems (BESSs) to provide concurrent primary frequency and local voltage regulation services. The actual variable a…
Hierarchical Demand Forecasting Benchmark for the Distribution Grid
Lorenzo Nespoli, Vasco Medici, Kristijan Lopatichki +1
We present a comparative study of different probabilistic forecasting techniques on the task of predicting the electrical load of secondary substations and cabinets located in a lo…
Dispatch and Primary Frequency Control with Electrochemical Storage: a System-wise Verification
Yihui Zuo, Fabrizio Sossan, Mokhtar Bozorg +1
Uncertainty levels in forecasting of renewable generation and demand are known to affect the amount of reserve required to operate the power grid with a given level of reliability.…
An ADMM-based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation
Rahul Gupta, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari +4
This paper describes a two-layer control and coordination framework for distributed energy resources. The lower layer is a real-time model predictive control (MPC) executed at 10 s…
Control of Battery Storage Systems for the Simultaneous Provision of Multiple Services
Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Rachid Cherkaoui +1
In this paper, we propose a control framework for a battery energy storage system to provide simultaneously multiple services to the electrical grid. The objective is to maximise t…
Unsupervised Disaggregation of PhotoVoltaic Production from Composite Power Flow Measurements of Heterogeneous Prosumers
Fabrizio Sossan, Lorenzo Nespoli, Vasco Medici +1
We consider the problem of estimating the unobserved amount of photovoltaic (PV) generation and demand in a power distribution network starting from measurements of the aggregated…
Photovoltaic Model-Based Solar Irradiance Estimators: Performance Comparison and Application to Maximum Power Forecasting
Enrica Scolari, Fabrizio Sossan, Mario Paolone
Due to the increasing proportion of distributed photovoltaic (PV) production in the generation mix, the knowledge of the PV generation capacity has become a key factor. In this wor…
Achieving the Dispatchability of Distribution Feeders through Prosumers Data Driven Forecasting and Model Predictive Control of Electrochemical Storage
Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor, Rachid Cherkaoui +1
We propose and experimentally validate a control strategy to dispatch the operation of a distribution feeder interfacing heterogeneous prosumers by using a grid-connected battery e…
Grey-box Modelling of a Household Refrigeration Unit Using Time Series Data in Application to Demand Side Management
Fabrizio Sossan, Venkatachalam Lakshmanan, Giuseppe Tommaso Costanzo +3
This paper describes the application of stochastic grey-box modeling to identify electrical power consumption-to-temperature models of a domestic freezer using experimental measure…