Title
Enhancing Distribution System Resilience with Mobile Energy Storage and Microgrids
Abstract
Electrochemical energy storage (ES) units (e.g. batteries) have been field-validated as an efficient back-up resource that enhances resilience of distribution systems. However, using these units for resilience is insufficient to justify their installation economically and, therefore, these units are often installed in locations where they yield the greatest economic value during normal operations. Motivated by the recent progress in mobile ES technologies, i.e. ES units can be moved using public transportation routes, this paper proposes to use this spatial flexibility to bridge the gap between the economically optimal locations during normal operations and the locations where extra back-up capacity is necessary during disasters. We propose a two-stage optimization model that optimizes investments in mobile ES units in the first stage and can re-route the installed mobile ES units in the second stage to form dynamic microgrids (MGs) and to avoid the expected load shedding caused by disasters. Since the proposed model cannot be solved efficiently with off-the-shelf solvers, even for relatively small instances, we apply the progressive hedging algorithm. The proposed model and algorithm are tested on a 15-bus radial distribution test system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/tsg.2018.2872521
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
Keywords
Field
DocType
Planning,Energy storage,Resilience,Microgrids,Generators,Optimization,Investment
Psychological resilience,Energy storage,Distribution system,Control engineering,Public transport,Hedge (finance),Engineering,Reliability engineering,Microgrid,Load Shedding
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
5
1949-3053
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.46
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jip Kim150.46
Yury Dvorkin2111.94