From Hierarchical to Open Access Electric Power Systems

Electric Power Distribution Systems

Electric Power Systems Research

This book contains articles [1–22] that were accepted for publication in a Special Issue of Energies on the subject of “Electric Power Systems Research”. Customers request electric utilities to deliver electric power in a stable, reliable, secure, and sustainable manner from a generation system through transmission and distribution systems to end-users. Consequently, the need to develop advance...

Genetic Algorithms Application to Electric Power Systems

With the opening of the power industry to competition, the power system structure is changing. According to these changes, power system operation, planning, and control need modifications. In the past, utilities had to produce power to satisfy their customers with objective to minimize costs and all demand/reserve were met. However, it is not necessary in a restructured system. Under new struct...

Contributions to Security of Electric Power Systems

Electricity supply is a fundamental need of a modern society. A crucial property of electricity supply reliability, is achieved by keeping a power system in a secure state most of the time. A secure state means, that the risk of a disturbance to spread further and endanger the system integrity, resulting into supply interruptions, is minimal. Keeping a power system secure is a very challenging ...

Priority Network Access Pricing for Electric Power

We propose a priority-pricing scheme for zonal access to the electric power grid that is uniform across all buses in each zone. The Independent System Operator (ISO) charges bulk power traders a per unit ex-ante transmission access fee based on the expected option value of the generated power with respect to the random zonal spot prices. The zonal access fee depends on the injection zone and a ...