Microgrids have emerged as a practical solution to improve the power system resilience against unpredicted failures and outages. offer substantial benefits for customers through local supply of domestic demands well reducing curtailment during possible disruptions. Furthermore, interdependency natural gas networks is key factor in energy systems’ critical hours. This paper suggests probabilisti...

Demand response (DR) programs are widely used to balance the supply and demand of electricity in a smart grid. This results in a reliable electric power system. Unfortunately, privacy violation becomes a pressing challenge that drastically affects the DR programs. Power usage and operational data can be abused to infer personal information of customers. Without a well-designed privacy preservat...

Increasing the penetration of variable wind generation in power systems has created some new challenges in the power system operation. In such a situation, the inclusion of flexible resources which have the potential of facilitating wind power integration is necessary. Demand response (DR) programs and emerging utility-scale energy storages (ESs) are known as two powerful flexible tools that ca...

Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR), an XML-based information exchange model, is used to facilitate continuous price-responsive operation and demand response participation for large commercial buildings in New York who are subject to the default day-ahead hourly pricing. We summarize the existing demand response programs in New York and discuss OpenADR communication, prioritization of dema...

This paper reviews the reliability impacts occurring from the implementation of the demand response initiatives offered in New York’s Emergency Demand Response Program (EDRP) and New England’s Load Response Program (LRP) for the summer of 2001. The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO), the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL) and the Independent System Operator of New England Inc. (ISO...