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Wildfire Resilient Unit Commitment under Uncertain Demand
Ryan Greenough, Kohei Murakami, Michael Davidson +2
Public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) are a common pre-emptive measure to reduce wildfire risk due to power system equipment failure. System operators use PSPS to de-energize electri…
Distributed Frequency Control in Power Grids with Low and Time-Varying Inertia
Manasa Muralidharan, Jan Kleissl, Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez
This paper presents a distributed frequency control method for power grids with high penetration of inverter-connected resources under low and time-varying inertia due to renewable…
Neighbor-Based Optimized Logistic Regression Machine Learning Model For Electric Vehicle Occupancy Detection
Sayan Shaw, Keaton Chia, Jan Kleissl
This paper presents an optimized logistic regression machine learning model that predicts the occupancy of an Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station given the occupancy of neighbor…
Dynamic Weight-Based Collaborative Optimization for Power Grid Voltage Regulation
Cristian Cortés, Hamed Valizadeh Haghi, Changfu Li +1
Power distribution grids with high PV generation are exposed to voltage disturbances due to the unpredictable nature of renewable resources. Smart PV inverters, if controlled in co…
Frequency Regulation with Heterogeneous Energy Resources: A Realization using Distributed Control
Tor Anderson, Manasa Muralidharan, Priyank Srivastava +5
This paper presents one of the first real-life demonstrations of coordinated and distributed resource control for secondary frequency response in a power distribution grid. We cond…
Coordination of OLTC and Smart Inverters for Optimal Voltage Regulation of Unbalanced Distribution Networks
Changfu Li, Vahid R. Disfani, Hamed Valizadeh Haghi +1
Photovoltaic (PV) smart inverters can improve the voltage profile of distribution networks. A multi-objective optimization framework for coordination of reactive power injection of…
Optimal Voltage Regulation of Unbalanced Distribution Networks with Coordination of OLTC and PV Generation
Changfu Li, Vahid Disfani, Hamed Valizadeh Haghi +1
Photovoltaic (PV) smart inverters can regulate voltage in distribution systems by modulating reactive power of PV systems. In this paper, an optimization framework for optimal coor…
Optimal OLTC Voltage Control Scheme to Enable High Solar Penetrations
Changfu Li, Vahid R. Disfani, Zachary K. Pecenak +2
High solar Photovoltaic (PV) penetration on distribution systems can cause over-voltage problems. To this end, an Optimal Tap Control (OTC) method is proposed to regulate On-Load T…
Spatio-Temporal Forecasting by Coupled Stochastic Differential Equations: Applications to Solar Power
Emil B. Iversen, Rune Juhl, Jan K. Møller +3
Spatio-temporal problems exist in many areas of knowledge and disciplines ranging from biology to engineering and physics. However, solution strategies based on classical statistic…
Market-Driven Energy Storage Planning for Microgrids with Renewable Energy Systems Using Stochastic Programming
Abdulelah H Habib, Vahid R. Disfani, Jan Kleissl +1
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) can mitigate effects of intermittent energy production from renewable energy sources and play a critical role in peak shaving and demand charg…
Optimal Switchable Load Sizing and Scheduling for Standalone Renewable Energy Systems
Abdulelah H. Habib, Vahid R. Disfani, Jan Kleissl +1
The variability of solar energy in off-grid systems dictates the sizing of energy storage systems along with the sizing and scheduling of loads present in the off-grid system. Unfo…
Smart Inverter Impacts on California Distribution Feeders with Increasing PV Penetration: A Case Study
Zachary K. Pecenak, Jan Kleissl, Vahid Rasouli Disfani
The impacts of high PV penetration on distribution feeders have been well documented within the last decade. To mitigate these impacts, interconnection standards have been amended…
Optimization-based Residential Load Scheduling to Improve Reliability in the Distribution Grid
Abdulelah H. Habib, Elizabeth L Ratnam, Vahid R. Disfani +2
Despite the recent rapid adoption of rooftop solar PV for residential customers, islanded operation during grid outages remains elusive for most PV owners. In this paper we conside…
Scheduling of Dynamic Electric Loads Using Energy Storage and Short Term Power Forecasting
Raymond A. de Callafon, Abdulelah H. Habib, Jan Kleissl
In this paper we formulate an optimization approach to schedule electrical loads given a short term prediction of time-varying power production and the ability to store only a limi…
Quasi-dynamic Load and Battery Sizing and Scheduling for Stand-Alone Solar System Using Mixed-integer Linear Programming
Abdulelah H. Habib, Vahid R. Disfani, Jan Kleissl +1
Considering the intermittency of renewable energy systems, a sizing and scheduling model is proposed for a finite number of static electric loads. The model objective is to maximiz…
Model Predictive Load Scheduling Using Solar Power Forecasting
Abdulelah H. Habib, Jan Kleissl, Raymond A. de Callafon
In this paper a model is developed to solve the on/off scheduling of (non-linear) dynamic electric loads based on predictions of the power delivery of a (standalone) solar power so…
On the Evaluation of Plug-in Electric Vehicle Data of a Campus Charging Network
Islam Safak Bayram, Vahraz Zamani, Ryan Hanna +1
The mass adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) requires the deployment of public charging stations. Such facilities are expected to employ distributed generation and storage…
Reliability of Dynamic Load Scheduling with Solar Forecast Scenarios
Abdulelah H Habib, Zachary K Pecena, Vahid R Disfani +2
This paper presents and evaluates the performance of an optimal scheduling algorithm that selects the on/off combinations and timing of a finite set of dynamic electric loads on th…
Storage Size Determination for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems
Yu Ru, Jan Kleissl, Sonia Martinez
In this paper, we study the problem of determining the size of battery storage used in grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. In our setting, electricity is generated from PV an…