Power System Restoration in Restructured Power Industry

Power system restoration decision-making is one of the most important and indispensable issues for ensuring fast power supply restoration to end users. In recent years, the power industry around the globe has been undertaking an in-depth restructuring, and this has led to some new challenges to the problem of power system restoration. In this paper, several important issues related to power system restoration in the traditional power industry and in the electricity market environment are analyzed and compared, and then the impacts of the restructuring efforts on the power system restoration are identified and clarified from several aspects including black-start, restoration tests, dispatching and distribution system service restoration. Up to now, in most of the practically operating electricity markets around the globe power system restoration ancillary service is still based on cost compensation rather than market mechanism.