Data-Driven Preemptive Voltage Monitoring and Control Using Probabilistic Voltage Sensitivities

Increased penetration levels of distributed variable renewable generation can cause random voltage fluctuations and violations at multiple nodes. Traditional methods of voltage control typically involve reactionary responses of capacitor banks, tap changers, and recently even smart inverters. But be...

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Published inIEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Jhala, Kumarsinh, Krishnan, Venkat, Natarajan, Balasubramaniam, Zhang, Yingchen
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2019
Subjects
Distributed Generation
Distribution System
Fluctuations
Inverters
Monitoring
Probabilistic logic
Renewable energy sources
Sensitivity
Sensitivity analysis
Sensor Measurement
Tap changers
Voltage
Voltage control
Voltage fluctuations
Voltage measurement
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Summary:Increased penetration levels of distributed variable renewable generation can cause random voltage fluctuations and violations at multiple nodes. Traditional methods of voltage control typically involve reactionary responses of capacitor banks, tap changers, and recently even smart inverters. But because of the lack of foresight in voltage violations, these controls are ineffective to completely mitigate the issue. Therefore, new methods of predicting voltage violations subject to random power injection changes in the distribution network are needed, which can be used to guide optimal and dynamic methods of voltage control. This work lays the foundation for such preemptive voltage monitoring and control by proposing an analytical and sensor data-driven voltage sensitivity analysis method. Driven by stochastic data and forecasts, the method can be used to develop probabilistic voltage sensitivities and consequently to predict system nodes with high likelihood of voltage limit violations. The effectiveness of this method is tested on IEEE 69-node distribution system integrated with distributed solar. The results demonstrate the proposed method's ability to successfully predict nodes with high probability of voltage violations for a specific time-series simulation. The results also demonstrate the ability to guide timely power injection control actions to mitigate future voltage violations.
ISSN:1944-9933
DOI:10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973956