Ali Fattahi Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, [email protected] Sriram Dasu Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90089, [email protected] Reza Ahmadi Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 9009...

Using electric vehicles, in addition to decreasing the environmental concerns, can play an important role in decreasing the peak and filling the off-peaks of the daily load characteristics. In other words, in smart grids' infrastructure, the load characteristics can be improved by scheduling the charge and discharge process of electric vehicles. In smart grids, the customers are instantaneously...

Using electric vehicles, in addition to decreasing the environmental concerns, can play an important role in decreasing the peak and filling the off-peaks of the daily load characteristics. In other words, in smart grids' infrastructure, the load characteristics can be improved by scheduling the charge and discharge process of electric vehicles. In smart grids, the customers are instantaneously...

Plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) are gaining increasing popularity in recent years, due to the growing societal awareness of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the dependence on foreign oil or petroleum. Large-scale implementation of PEVs in the power system currently faces many challenges. One particular concern is that the PEV charging can potentially cause significant impact on the e...

Built upon real-world SCADA and other measurements of a featured utility-scale testbed, this paper addresses the participation of customer side battery energy storage in providing peak load shaving at a 12.47 kV distribution feeder. A stochastic optimization-based battery operation framework is developed that enables feeder load peak shaving under offline (day-ahead) as well as online (close-to...

The level of automation is one of the central issues in designing control systems. Occupant attitudes towards different levels of automation in domestic control systems were studied using a qualitative interview method. The following systems were considered: (1) control of indoor thermal environment, (2) peak load management, and (3) own energy production. For each system, four solutions repres...

Effect of load variation on network reconfiguration and service restoration plans in balanced and unbalanced distribution systems is studied. Comprehensive survey of the conceptual aspect as well as published algorithms for distribution network reconfiguration is presented. Different reconfiguration networks and scenarios are discussed. Results showed the effectiveness of building restoration p...

The growing penetration of renewable generation in distribution networks, primarily deployed by end-use electricity customers, is changing the traditional load profile and inevitably makes supply-load balancing more challenging for grid operators. Leveraging the potential flexibility of existing microgrids, that is to help with supply-load balance locally, is a viable solution to cope with this...

In the field of power systems there is an active research on methods to limit the peak load of power demand. Recently, a new approach to the automatic management of electric loads has been proposed, which is based on scheduling techniques derived from real-time computing systems. The research on real-time scheduling encompasses several aspects, including scheduling algorithms and analysis techn...