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Title | ||
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Availability Evaluation of Micro-Grids for Resistant Power Supply During Natural Disasters. |
Abstract | ||
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This paper discusses how micro-grids availability during natural disasters and in their aftermath can be assessed. The analysis focuses on two critical groups of components that allow micro-grids to improve power supply availability: distributed generators and local energy storage. For distributed generators and, due to their importance during natural disasters, this paper presents a novel focus by exploring the importance of lifelines for system availability. Renewable energy sources are identified as valuable distributed generation assets during disasters because they do not require lifelines; yet, their variable generation nature leads to the need for significant local energy storage. Additional local energy storage may be desirable as a backup solution to address potential failures that would blackout the load because they reduce the impact of lifeline performance during disasters on micro-grid availability. Analysis of micro-grids availability is performed based on Markov state space models and calculated using minimal cut sets approximations. This calculation method has the advantage of being very simple, not requiring extensive knowledge in the subject or computational needs. Results are verified with numerical experiments using Monte Carlo simulations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1109/TSG.2012.2197832 | IEEE Trans. Smart Grid |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Markov processes,Monte Carlo methods,approximation theory,disasters,distributed power generation,energy storage,power supplies to apparatus,renewable energy sources,Markov state space models,Monte Carlo simulations,availability evaluation,distributed generation assets,local energy storage,microgrids,minimal cut sets approximations,natural disasters,renewable energy sources,resistant power supply,variable generation nature,Availability model,Markov chain,distributed generation,energy storage,lifelines,microgrids,minimal cut sets,natural disasters,reliability,renewable energy sources | Energy storage,Markov process,Renewable energy,Markov chain,Distributed generation,Blackout,Engineering,Backup,Reliability engineering,Maintenance engineering | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
3 | 4 | 1949-3053 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
11 | 0.80 | 3 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Kwasinski | 1 | 64 | 7.80 |
| Vaidyanathan Krishnamurthy | 2 | 11 | 0.80 |
| Junseok Song | 3 | 11 | 0.80 |
| Ratnesh K. Sharma | 4 | 483 | 53.37 |