Distributed Volt-Var Curve Optimization Using a Cellular Computational Network Representation of an Electric Power Distribution System

Autor: Hasala Dharmawardena, Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 15, Iss 12, p 4438 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en15124438
Popis: Voltage control in modern electric power distribution systems has become challenging due to the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DER). The current state-of-the-art voltage control is based on static/pre-determined DER volt-var curves. Static volt-var curves do not provide sufficient flexibility to address the temporal and spatial aspects of the voltage control problem in a power system with a large number of DER. This paper presents a simple, scalable, and robust distributed optimization framework (DOF) for optimizing voltage control. The proposed framework allows for data-driven distributed voltage optimization in a power distribution system. This method enhances voltage control by optimizing volt-var curve parameters of inverters in a distributed manner based on a cellular computational network (CCN) representation of the power distribution system. The cellular optimization approach enables the system-wide optimization. The cells to be optimized may be prioritized and two methods namely, graph and impact-based methods, are studied. The impact-based method requires extra initial computational efforts but thereafter provides better computational throughput than the graph-based method. The DOF is illustrated on a modified standard distribution test case with several DERs. The results from the test case demonstrate that the DOF based volt-var optimization results in consistently better performance than the state-of-the-art volt-var control.
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