Critical Load Restoration Using Distributed Energy Resources for Resilient Power Distribution System

Extreme weather events have a significant impact on the aging and outdated power distribution infrastructures. These high-impact low-probability events often result in extended outages and loss of critical services, thus, severely affecting customers' safety. This calls for the need to ensure t...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on power systems 2019-01, Vol.34 (1), p.52-63
Main Authors:	Poudel, Shiva, Dubey, Anamika
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	availability Computer simulation Configuration management Distributed energy resources (DERs) Distributed generation Distribution management Electric power distribution Energy resources Energy sources Indexes Load distribution (forces) Load modeling Loads (forces) Microgrids mixed integer linear programming Optimization Reactive power Reliability Resilience restoration Service restoration Stress concentration Weathering
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Summary:	Extreme weather events have a significant impact on the aging and outdated power distribution infrastructures. These high-impact low-probability events often result in extended outages and loss of critical services, thus, severely affecting customers' safety. This calls for the need to ensure the resilience in distribution networks by quickly restoring the critical services during a disaster. This paper presents an advanced feeder restoration method to restore critical loads using distributed energy resources (DERs). A resilient restoration approach is proposed that jointly maximizes the amount of restored critical loads and optimizes the restoration times by optimally allocating grids available DER resources. The restoration problem is modeled as a mixed-integer linear program with the objective of maximizing the resilience to postrestoration failures while simultaneously satisfying grids critical connectivity and operational constraints and ensuring a radial operation for a given open-loop feeder configuration. Simulations are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach using the IEEE 123-node feeder with five DERs supplying 11 critical loads and the IEEE 906-bus feeder with three DERs supplying 17 critical loads. The impacts of DER availability and fuel reserve on restored networks are assessed and it is shown that the proposed approach is successfully able to restore a maximum number of critical loads using available DERs.
ISSN:	0885-8950 1558-0679