Control and Optimization Methods for Electric Smart Grids

✍ Scribed by Marija D. Ilić, Qixing Liu (auth.), Aranya Chakrabortty, Marija D. Ilić (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 373
• Series: Power Electronics and Power Systems 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Control and Optimization Methods for Electric Smart Grids brings together leading experts in power, control and communication systems, and consolidates some of the most promising recent research in smart grid modeling, control and optimization in hopes of laying the foundation for future advances in this critical field of study. The contents comprise eighteen essays addressing wide varieties of control-theoretic problems for tomorrow’s power grid. Topics covered include control architectures for power system networks with large-scale penetration of renewable energy and plug-in vehicles, optimal demand response, new modeling methods for electricity markets, cyber-security,data analysis and wide-area control using synchronized phasor measurements.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Toward Sensing, Communications and Control Architectures for Frequency Regulation in Systems with Highly Variable Resources....Pages 3-33
Dynamic Competitive Equilibria in Electricity Markets....Pages 35-62
Optimal Demand Response: Problem Formulation and Deterministic Case....Pages 63-85
Wholesale Energy Market in a Smart Grid: A Discrete-Time Model and the Impact of Delays....Pages 87-110
Coordinating Regulation and Demand Response in Electric Power Grids: Direct and Price-Based Tracking Using Multirate Economic Model Predictive Control....Pages 111-131
Smart Vehicles in the Smart Grid: Challenges, Trends, and Application to the Design of Charging Stations....Pages 133-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Models for Impact Assessment of Wind-Based Power Generation on Frequency Control....Pages 149-165
Multi-Dimensional Modal Analysis in Large Power Systems from Ambient Data Based on Frequency-Domain Optimization....Pages 167-184
Coherent Swing Instability of Interconnected Power Grids and a Mechanism of Cascading Failure....Pages 185-202
Toward a Highly Available Modern Grid....Pages 203-222
Models and Control Strategies for Data Centers in the Smart Grid....Pages 223-237
Electrical Centrality Measures for Power Grids....Pages 239-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Optimal Charging Control for Plug-In Electric Vehicles....Pages 259-273
Risk Analysis of Coordinated Cyber Attacks on Power Grid....Pages 275-294
Synchronous Measurements in Power Distribution Systems....Pages 295-312
The Influence of Time Delays on Decentralized Economic Dispatch by Using Incremental Cost Consensus Algorithm....Pages 313-326
An Adaptive Wide-Area Power System Damping Controller using Synchrophasor Data....Pages 327-342
A Model Reference Approach for Interarea Modal Damping in Large Power Systems....Pages 343-362
Back Matter....Pages 363-371

✦ Subjects

Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Energy Systems