ZONAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS FOR SMART GRIDS APPLICATIONS

• US 20150058061A1
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Haytham Mostafa, Magdy Salama, Ramadan El-Shatshat, Walid Morsi Ibrahim
• Original Assignee: Haytham Mostafa, Magdy Salama, Ramadan El-Shatshat, Walid Morsi Ibrahim
• Inventors: Salama, Magdy, El-Shatshat, Ramadan, Ibrahim, Walid Morsi, Mostafa, Haytham
• Application Number:
  US13/975,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.22
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06312 Adjustment or analysis of established resource schedule, e.g. resource or task levelling, or dynamic rescheduling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/70 Smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the energy generation sector
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications

Abstract

An energy management and optimization system for smart grids is proposed to manage available zonal tools and resources to fulfill the objectives of a decision maker. The present invention is based on an efficient energy management system that monitors and manages the power of a zonal segment of the power system, at a flexible scale while taking into account the nature and characteristics of the zone. The system can be easily integrated with existing single unit and whole system.

Claims

1. A zonal energy management and optimization system (ZEMOS) to manage available zonal tools and resources to fulfill a decision maker'"'"'s objectives at minimum operational costs and within the decision maker'"'"'s time limit, the system comprising:

a. an input module receiving inputs from said decision maker, a zonal system, and an online measurement system;

b. an objectives module to store objectives being selected according to said decision maker'"'"'s objectives;

c. a resources and tools module to store available zonal tools and resources being selected based on said decision maker'"'"'s objectives;

d. a conflict resolution and optimization module to store conflict resolution and optimization algorithms being used based on the number of said objectives and the nature of said objectives;

e. a data bank module to store zonal system data for forecasting and processing of said zonal system data;

f. a decision making module to make decision based on said decision maker'"'"'s objectives, objectives limits, objectives priorities, and an optimum state; and

g. an output module to generate output for said zonal system to fulfill said decision maker'"'"'s objectives.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said input module from the decision maker comprising:

a. plurality of objectives;

b. priorities of said objectives according to the decision maker;

c. limits of said objectives; and

d. a time limit.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said input module from said zonal system, comprising of distributed generators, number of dispatchable distributed generators, environmental data, historical load data, and energy prices.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said input module from said online measurement system comprising of:

a. online data readings collected from plurality of zonal system meters comprising;

voltages; and

main feeder currents;

b. online data readings collected from plurality of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI);

c. electrical loading conditions, and

d. zonal system state being selected from normal state, emergency state, and restoration state.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said objectives module comprising:

a. a first output group comprising of the number of decision makers, duration, constraints, priorities, time limit, objectives limits, and the number of objectives selected by each decision maker, wherein said first output group is used by said conflict resolution and optimization module, and said decision making module;

b. a second output group comprising of the objectives selected by each decision maker, and being used by said resources and tools module, and said conflicts resolution and optimization module, in order to optimize the objectives, and

c. said input module from the decision maker.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said resources and tools module comprising of available zonal tools and resources comprising of demand response, distributed generation set points, capacitors switching states, percentage load shedding, and phase swapping options.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said resources and tools module comprising:

a. a first input group from said objectives module to match and activate said available zonal tools and resources to said decision maker'"'"'s objectives using a probabilistic smart matching scheme;

b. a second input group from said data bank module to determine base-case values from inactivated states of said available zonal tools and resources; and

c. an output group to said conflict resolution and optimization module to indicate lower and upper bounds of said available zonal tools and resources.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said conflict resolution and optimization module comprising:

a. plurality of optimization and conflict resolution algorithms;

b. an input group 1 from said objectives module;

c. an input group 2 from said resources and tools Module;

d. an input group 3 from said data bank module, and

e. an output group 1 to said decision making module and said output module to indicate said optimum state.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said data bank module comprising:

a. data storage sub-module to store zonal system data for the ZEMOS operation, comprising;

base-case values of said available zonal tools and resources;

present loadings;

distributed generation states;

zonal system state, and

historical data (renewable distributed generation powers, and loadings).

b. data forecasting sub-module to store sets of data forecasting models and techniques to forecast ahead the behavior of the zonal system; and

c. data processing sub-module to process zonal system data to be used by said conflict resolution and optimization module.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said decision making module comprising:

a. an input group from said conflicts resolution and optimization module being said optimum states;

b. an input group from said objectives module being decision maker'"'"'s objectives limits, and objectives priorities, and

c. an output group being a single optimum state to be stored in said output module as a final output of ZEMOS.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said decision making module being based on minimizing the value of an L_p-metrics family defined as

12. The system of claim 1, wherein said output module comprising of:

a. said available zonal tools and resources that need to be controlled;

b. recommended optimal states of said available zonal tools and resources comprising of amount of load demands to be curtailed/shifted, amount of distributed generation output powers, load phase swapping states, capacitors switching states, voltage regulators tap settings, and reference values for control systems;

c. time instant of said recommended optimal states; and

d. duration of said recommended optimal states.

13. A Smart Matching Scheme (SMS) to match the available zonal tools and resources to the decision maker'"'"'s objectives comprising:

a sensitivity index generation method and a cost evaluation method; and

a matching stage algorithm.

14. The smart matching scheme of claim 13, wherein said sensitivity index generation and said cost evaluation method comprising:

a. calculating the sensitivity of each tool step change as,

15. A smart matching scheme of claim 13, wherein said matching stage algorithm comprising of a multi-objective optimization problem being solved in order to maximize the total sensitivity index, while minimizing the operational cost by minimizing the function: