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 ...

We consider an emerging scenario where large-load customers employ energy storage (e.g., fuel cells) to reduce the peak procurement from the grid, which accounts for up to 90% of their electricity bills. We focus on maximizing the peak-demand reduction, ...