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Why Your Power System Restoration Does Not Work and What the ICT System Can Do About It

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Sebastian Lehnhoff,

Hermann de MeerAuthors Info & Claims

e-Energy '21: Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems

Pages 269 - 273

https://doi.org/10.1145/3447555.3465415

Published: 22 June 2021 Publication History

Abstract

While long-term wide-range blackouts have been studied extensively from a power systems perspective, the role of ICT in the recovery of smart energy systems has not been investigated to the same extent. This paper presents a flexible blackstart service to restore a smart distribution system alongside an impaired ICT system. We formulate the problem of power grid restoration as a distributed optimization problem, taking into account distributed energy resources and remote-controllable switches as optimization variables and employ a multi-agent system to deliver an optimal island configuration. We define an integrated architecture for the interdependent power and ICT system and test our methodology on a realistic distribution system scenario with varying impaired ICT. The results show that the efficiency of the restoration is highly sensitive to the placement of emergency power supply and the coverage of ICT nodes.

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