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Cyber-Physical Attack Leveraging Subsynchronous Resonance
Bosong Li, Baosen Zhang, Daniel S. Kirschen
This paper discusses how a cyber attack could take advantage of torsional resonances in the shaft of turbo-generators to inflict severe physical damage to a power system. If attack…
Should Storage-Centric Tariffs be Extended to Commercial Flexible Demand?
Lane D. Smith, Daniel S. Kirschen
Further electrification of the economy is expected to sharpen ramp rates and increase peak loads. Flexibility from the demand side, which new technologies might facilitate, can hel…
Bi-level Volt/VAR Optimization in Distribution Networks with Smart PV Inverters
Yao Long, Daniel S. Kirschen
Optimal Volt/VAR control (VVC) in distribution networks relies on an effective coordination between the conventional utility-owned mechanical devices and the smart residential phot…
Adaptive Coalition Formation-Based Coordinated Voltage Regulation in Distribution Networks
Yao Long, Ryan T. Elliott, Daniel S. Kirschen
High penetrations of photovoltaic (PV) systems can cause severe voltage quality problems in distribution networks. This paper proposes a distributed control strategy based on the d…
Estimating Demand Flexibility Using Siamese LSTM Neural Networks
Guangchun Ruan, Daniel S. Kirschen, Haiwang Zhong +2
There is an opportunity in modern power systems to explore the demand flexibility by incentivizing consumers with dynamic prices. In this paper, we quantify demand flexibility usin…
Impacts of Time-of-Use Rate Changes on the Electricity Bills of Commercial Consumers
Lane D. Smith, Daniel S. Kirschen
Changes in the profile of prices in wholesale electricity markets prompt utilities to redesign their tariffs and adjust their time-of-use periods to ensure a more adequate cost rec…
Stabilizing Transient Disturbances With Utility-Scale Inverter-Based Resources
Ryan T. Elliott, Payman Arabshahi, Daniel S. Kirschen
This paper presents a trajectory tracking control strategy that modulates the active power injected by geographically distributed inverter-based resources to support transient stab…
Sparse Oblique Decision Tree for Power System Security Rules Extraction and Embedding
Qingchun Hou, Ning Zhang, Daniel S. Kirschen +3
Increasing the penetration of variable generation has a substantial effect on the operational reliability of power systems. The higher level of uncertainty that stems from this var…
Profitable Emissions-Reducing Energy Storage
Daniel J. Olsen, Daniel S. Kirschen
While energy arbitrage from energy storage can lower power system operating costs, it can also increase greenhouse gas emissions. If power system operations are conducted with the…
A Generalized PSS Architecture for Balancing Transient and Small-Signal Response
Ryan T. Elliott, Payman Arabshahi, Daniel S. Kirschen
For decades, power system stabilizers paired with high initial response automatic voltage regulators have served as an effective means of meeting sometimes conflicting system stabi…
Post-disaster Repair Scheduling in Partially Automated Electricity Distribution Networks
Yushi Tan, Arindam K. Das, Payman Arabshahi +1
Natural disasters require repairing all damaged components in electricity distribution networks. Optimal scheduling repair crews to minimize the aggregate duration of interruptions…
Sharing Energy Storage Between Transmission and Distribution
Ryan Elliott, Ricardo Fernandez-Blanco, Kelly Kozdras +4
This paper addresses the problem of how best to coordinate, or `stack,' energy storage services in systems that lack centralized markets. Specifically, its focus is on how to coord…
Planning Low-Carbon Campus Energy Hubs
Daniel J. Olsen, Ning Zhang, Chongqing Kang +2
Multi-energy systems can provide a constant level of service to end-use energy demands, while deriving delivered energy from a variety of primary/secondary energy sources. This fue…
Real-Time Prediction of the Duration of Distribution System Outages
Aaron Jaech, Baosen Zhang, Mari Ostendorf +1
This paper addresses the problem of predicting duration of unplanned power outages, using historical outage records to train a series of neural network predictors. The initial dura…
Combining Probabilistic Load Forecasts
Yi Wang, Ning Zhang, Yushi Tan +3
Probabilistic load forecasts provide comprehensive information about future load uncertainties. In recent years, many methodologies and techniques have been proposed for probabilis…
Controlled Islanding via Weak Submodularity
Zhipeng Liu, Andrew Clark, Linda Bushnell +2
Cascading failures typically occur following a large disturbance in power systems, such as tripping of a generating unit or a transmission line. Such failures can propagate and des…
Tractable and Robust Modeling of Building Flexibility Using Coarse Data
Jesus E. Contreras-Ocaña, Miguel A. Ortega-Vazquez, Daniel Kirschen +1
Controllable building loads have the potential to increase the flexibility of power systems. A key step in developing effective and attainable load control policies is modeling the…
Accurate Semidefinite Programming Models for Optimal Power Flow in Distribution Systems
Zeyu Wang, Daniel S. Kirschen, Baosen Zhang
In this paper, we develop semidefinite programming (SDP) models aimed at solving optimal power flow (OPF) problems in distribution systems. We propose two models: the symmetrical S…
Minimal Input Selection for Robust Control
Zhipeng Liu, Yao Long, Andrew Clark +4
This paper studies the problem of selecting a minimum-size set of input nodes to guarantee stability of a networked system in the presence of uncertainties and time delays. Current…
Distribution Systems Hardening against Natural Disasters
Yushi Tan, Arindam K. Das, Payman Arabshahi +1
Distribution systems are often crippled by catastrophic damage caused by a natural disaster. Well-designed hardening can significantly improve the performance of post-disaster rest…
Optimal Battery Participation in Frequency Regulation Markets
Bolun Xu, Yuanyuan Shi, Daniel S. Kirschen +1
Battery participants in performance-based frequency regulation markets must consider the cost of battery aging in their operating strategies to maximize market profits. In this pap…
Optimal Battery Control Under Cycle Aging Mechanisms in Pay for Performance Settings
Yuanyuan Shi, Bolun Xu, Yushi Tan +2
We study the optimal control of battery energy storage under a general "pay-for-performance" setup such as providing frequency regulation and renewable integration. In these settin…
An Online Optimization Algorithm for Alleviating Contingencies in Transmission Networks
Nicolo Mazzi, Baosen Zhang, Daniel S. Kirschen
Power systems are increasingly operated in corrective rather than preventive security mode, which means that appropriate control actions must be taken immediately after a contingen…
Factoring the Cycle Aging Cost of Batteries Participating in Electricity Markets
Bolun Xu, Jinye Zhao, Tongxin Zheng +2
When participating in electricity markets, owners of battery energy storage systems must bid in such a way that their revenues will at least cover their true cost of operation. Sin…