Deriving policies from connection codes to ensure ongoing voltage stability

Ryan, David and Ponce De Leon, Miguel and Grant, Niall and Butler, Bernard and Vogel, Steffen and Mirz, Markus and Lyons, Pádraig (2019) Deriving policies from connection codes to ensure ongoing voltage stability. Energy Informatics, 2. ISSN 2520-8942

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Abstract

The management and transmission networks is becoming increasingly complex due to the proliferation of renewables-based distributed energy resources (DER). Existing control systems for DER are based on static specifications from interdependent network connection documents. Such systems are inflexible and their maintenance requires concerted effort between grid stakeholders. In this paper we present a new supplementary control approach to increase the agility of the electricity grid. The ICT system that underlies smart grids has the potential to offer, by analogy with ICT based network management, a control plane overlay for the modern smart grid. Policy-based Network Management (PBNM) is widely deployed in managed telecoms networks. We outline how PBNM can augment the management of power and energy networks and report on our initial work to validate the approach. To configure the PBNM system, we have used text mining to derive connection parameters at the LV level. In our simulations, PBNM was used in collaboration with a Volt-VAr optimisation (VVO) to tune the connection settings at each DER to manage the voltage across all the buses. We argue that the full benefits will be realised when stakeholders focus on agreeing relatively stable high-level connection policies, the policies being refined dynamically, and algorithms such as VVO that set connection parameters so they are consistent with those high-level policies. Thus faults, power quality issues and regulatory infringement can be identified sooner, and power flow can be optimised.

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Additional Information:	Funding Information: This paper is supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727481, project RE-SERVE (Renewables in a Stable Electric Grid) (). Publication of this supplement was funded by Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. Publisher Copyright: © 2019, The Author(s).
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:07
Last Modified:	07 Jun 2023 18:44
URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/4192

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