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Smart Dispatch of Generation Resources for[taliem.ir]

Smart Dispatch of Generation Resources for Restructured Electric Power Systems

This paper addresses the vision of a new generation dispatch system for restructured power systems. As distributed generation, demand response and renewable energy resources ecome significant portions of overall system installed capacity, a better system dispatch tool for system control centers is required in order to cope with the increasing amount of uncertainties being introduced by the new resources. A Smart ispatch (SD) framework for regional transmission organizations and transmission system operators to manage large power grids is proposed. In particular, the ability of the new dispatch system to provide a better holistic and forward-looking view of systemconditions and generation patterns will be discussed in detail. Such features are deemed critical for the success of efficient system operations in the future .
Exploiting Home Automation Protocols[taliem.ir]

Exploiting Home Automation Protocols for Load Monitoring in Smart Buildings

Monitoring and controlling electrical loads is crucial for demand-side energy management in smart grids. Home automation (HA) protocols, such as X10 and Insteon, have provided programmatic load control for many years, and are being widely deployed in early smart grid field trials. While HA protocols include basic monitoring functions, extreme bandwidth limitations (<180bps) have prevented their use in load monitoring. In this paper, we highlight challenges in designing AutoMeter, a system for exploiting HA for accurate load monitoring at scale. We quantify Insteon’s limitations to query device status—once every 10 seconds to achieve less than 5% loss rate—and then evaluate techniques to disaggregate coarse HA data from fine- grained building-wide power data. In particular, our techniques learn switched load power using on-off-dim events, and tag fine-grained building-wide power data using readings from plug meters every 5 minutes .
Big Data A Survey[taliem.ir]

Big Data: A Survey

In this paper, we review the background and state-of-the-art of big data. We first introduce the general background of big data and review related technologies, such as could computing, Internet of Things, data centers, and Hadoop. We then focus on the four phases of the value chain of big data, i.e., data generation, data acquisition, data storage, and data analysis. For each phase, we introduce the general background, discuss the technical challenges, and review the latest advances. We finally examine the several representative applications of big data, including enterprise management, Internet of Things, online social networks, medial applications, collective intelligence, and smart grid. These discussions aim to provide a comprehensive overview and big-picture to readers of this exciting area. This survey is concluded with a discussion of open problems and future directions.
Exploiting Home Automation Protocols[taliem.ir]

Exploiting Home Automation Protocols for Load Monitoring in Smart Buildings

Monitoring and controlling electrical loads is crucial for demand-side energy management in smart grids. Home automation (HA) protocols, such as X10 and Insteon, have provided programmatic load control for many years, and are being widely deployed in early smart grid field trials. While HA protocols include basic monitoring functions, extreme bandwidth limitations (<180bps) have prevented their use in load monitoring. In this paper, we highlight challenges in designing AutoMeter, a system for exploiting HA for accurate load monitoring at scale. We quantify Insteon’s limitations to query device status—once every 10 seconds to achieve less than 5% loss rate—and then evaluate techniques to disaggregate coarse HA data from fine- grained building-wide power data. In particular, our techniques learn switched load power using on-off-dim events, and tag fine-grained building-wide power data using readings from plug meters every 5 minutes.
Classification of Future Electricity Market Prices[taliem.ir]

Classification of Future Electricity Market Prices

Forecasting short-term electricity market prices has been the focus of several studies in recent years. Although various approaches have been examined, achieving sufficiently low forecasting errors has not been always possible. However, certain applications, such as demand-side management, do not require exact values for future prices but utilize specific price thresholds as the basis for making short-term scheduling decisions. In this paper, classification of future electricity market prices with respect to prespecified price thresholds is introduced. Two alternative models based on support vector machines are proposed in a multi-class, multi-step-ahead price classification context. Numerical results are provided for classifying prices in Ontario’s and Alberta’s markets.
Digital Grid Communicative Electrical Grids[taliem.ir]

Digital Grid: Communicative Electrical Grids of the Future

To support a high penetration of intermittent solar and wind power generation, many regions are planning to add new high capacity transmission lines. These additional transmission lines strengthen grid synchronization, but will also increase the grid’s short circuit capacity, and furthermore will be very costly. With a highly interconnected grid and variable renewable generation, a small grid failure can easily start cascading outages, resulting in large scale blackout. We introduce the “digital grid,” where large synchronous grids are divided into smaller segmented grids which are connected asynchronously, via multileg IP addressed ac/dc/ac converters called digital grid routers. These routers communicate with each other and send power among the segmented grids through existing transmission lines, which have been repurposed as digital grid transmission lines. The digital grid can accept high penetrations of renewable power, prevent cascading outages, accommodate identifiable tagged electricity flows, record those transactions, and trade electricity as a commodity.
Unit commitment by dynamic programming for[taliem.ir]

Unit commitment by dynamic programming for microgrid operational planning optimization and emission reduction

This paper presents a 24 hour ahead microgrid power planning using the approach of unit commitment by dynamic programming. The studied system comprises twelve PVbased active generators with embedded storage and three micro gas turbines. Based on the prediction of the energy available from the PV generator, the storage availability, the micro turbine emission characteristics and the load prediction, a central energy management system calculates a 24-hour ahead plan of the power references for three micro gas turbines and the active generators in order to minimize the CO2 equivalent emissions of the gas turbines.
A Secure Cloud Computing Based Framework[taliem.ir]

A Secure Cloud Computing Based Framework for Big Data Information Management of Smart Grid

Smart grid is a technological innovation that improves efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of electricity services. It plays a crucial role in modern energy infrastructure. The main challenges of smart grids, however, are how to manage different types of front-end intelligent devices such as power assets and smart meters efficiently; and how to process a huge amount of data received from these devices. Cloud computing, a technology that provides computational resources on demands, is a good candidate to address these challenges since it has several good properties such as energy saving, cost saving, agility, scalability, and flexibility. In this paper, we propose a secure cloud computing based framework for big data information management in smart grids, which we call “Smart-Frame.” The main idea of our framework is to build a hierarchical structure of cloud computing centers to provide different types of computing services for information management and big data analysis. In addition to this structural framework, we present a security solution based on identity-based encryption, signature and proxy re-encryption to address critical security issues of the proposed framework.