Traditional generation and transmission expansion planning has served electric utilities well for several decades to procure the least costing set of assets meet forecasted demand. Unfortunately, it does not consider a demand curve, in which case procures that do ensure maximum societal value. An Incremental Capacity Auction (ICA) enables power system competitively additional capacity maximizes...

A high share of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power distribution grids has posed many challenges for system operation and control. Microgrid (MG) application with different control approaches DERs been drawn a lot attention from the research community to provide more flexibility, reliability resilience system. This paper develops secondary MGs on top that using synchronous condenser (S...

Innovations in technologies, economic benefits, quality requirements and environmental concerns are changing the face of the existing power system. Centralized generating facilities are giving way to smaller, more distributed generation partially due to the loss of traditional economies of scale. The need of an intelligent grid, better known as Micro grid at the distribution end, has been recog...

The integration of distributed energy resources (DER) into the smart grid through digitalization has transformed power a more decentralized system, enhancing efficiency and resilience during significant catastrophes. However, large number DERs transmission distribution networks poses reliability challenges due to intermittent nature renewable sources. To tackle this, grids have been using advan...

This paper proposes an asynchronous distributed leader-follower control method to achieve conservation voltage reduction (CVR) in three-phase unbalanced distribution systems by optimally scheduling smart inverters of energy resources (DERs). One feature the proposed is consider integrated primary-secondary networks and dependent loads. To ease computational complexity introduced large number se...

Overvoltage is becoming increasingly prevalent in distribution networks with high penetration of renewable distributed energy sources (DERs). Local control converter-based resources a flexible and scalable method to prevent this growing issue. Reactive power used for voltage many local schemes. However, the typical range R/X ratios lines indicates that mitigation overvoltage often requires exce...

Dispatching a fleet of distributed energy resources (DERs) in response to wholesale market or regional grid signals requires solving challenging disaggregation problem when the DERs are coupled within distribution network. This manuscript presents computationally tractable convex inner approximation for optimal power flow (OPF) that quantifies feeder’s aggregate hosting capacity and enab...

2 the output of " utility scale " DERs (> one megawatt). In addition, existing industry standards define advanced functions for DER only at the individual device level, and lack the more aggregated, feeder-level representations that are needed for enterprise integration. This white paper describes ongoing research at the Electric Power Research Institute that is exploring Various ways in which ...

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The European strategic long-term vision underlined the importance of a smarter and flexible system for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Distributed energy resources (DERs) could provide required flexibility products. Distribution operators (DSOs) cooperating with TSO (transmission operators) are committed to procuring these products through market-based procedures. Among all...