Abstract

Fluctuations in renewable generation motivate a need for real-time coordination of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as demand response resources. Dynamic real-time market mechanisms are a promising approach to facilitate coordination of DERs. However, the implementation of such mechanisms over a large geographic region requires communication across networks which can introduce non-negligible latency, congestion, and packet loss. Such network disruptions raise questions regarding grid resilience, especially, when combined with physical outages. In this paper, we propose a framework for evaluating the resilience of dynamic real-time market mechanisms under a variety of network scenarios that are indicative of real-time implementation challenges. We develop a non-dimensional metric, which takes into account the impact of a physical contingency, and can be used to evaluate the ability of …

Date

2016

Authors

Paul Wood, Dylan Shiltz, Thomas R Nudell, Alefiya Hussain, Anuradha M Annaswamy

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volume

7

Issue

6

Pages

2904-2912

Publisher

IEEE