ICT-power co-simulation platform for the analysis of communication-based volt/var optimization in distribution feeders

Author

Bottura, Riccardo ; Borghetti, Alberto ; Napolitano, Fabio ; Nucci, Carlo Alberto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

19-22 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The paper presents an ICT and power co-simulation platform for the analysis of the volt/var control and relevant optimization in medium voltage distribution feeders, achieved by means of a system of distributed controllers coordinated via a shared band-limited digital communication network. The platform has been built by realizing the interface between two specific simulation environments: the Electromagnetic Transient Program EMTP-RV and the communication network simulator Opnet Modeller. The preliminary results provide basic indications on the expected performances of the considered communication-based strategies for different traffic congestion levels and load/generation dynamic variations.

Keywords

EMTP; control engineering computing; distributed control; optimisation; power distribution control; voltage control; EMTP-RV; Electromagnetic Transient Program; communication network simulator Opnet modeller; communication-based volt-VAr optimization analysis; distributed coordinated controller; lCT-power cosimulation platform; load-generation dynamic variation; medium voltage distribution feeder; shared band-limited digital communication network; traffic congestion level; volt-VAr control analysis; Delays; Impedance measurement; Indexes; Inductance; Inductance measurement; Loss measurement; Substations; Co-simulation; Networked Control Systems; Power distribution feeders; Volt/var optimization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2014 IEEE PES

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT.2014.6816425

Filename

6816425