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Model-less Measurement-based Computation of Voltage Sensitivities in Unbalanced Electrical Distribution Networks

Mugnier, Carl  
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Christakou, Konstantina  
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Jaton, Joel
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Bell, Keith
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Paolone, Mario  
2016
Proceedings of the 19th Power Systems Computation Conference
19th Power Systems Computation Conference

Within the context of microgrids optimal voltage control, most schemes proposed in the literature either rely on (i) droop-control methods or (ii) methods involving the computation of explicit nodal power set-points as a solution to a given optimization problem. The first category of approaches is in general suboptimal as it relies on locally sensed measurements. The second category guarantees some level of optimality but requires an accurate and up-to-date model of the network that is, in general, not always available in low voltage grids. To overcome the aforementioned limitations, in this work we propose a methodology suitable for voltage control in generic low voltage 3-phase unbalanced grids. It can be used for the computation of either explicit power set-points or to define the droops of local voltage regulators. Its main characteristic is that it does not rely on the knowledge of the system model and its state. In particular, the goal is to compute linearized dependencies between voltage magnitude and nodal power injections, i.e., voltage sensitivity coefficients. The proposed method assumes availability of a monitoring infrastructure and the computation of the desired sensitivities involves the solution of an over-determined system of linear equations constructed solely using available measurements of nodal power injections and voltage magnitudes. The proposed method is also capable to account for the measurement errors and their time correlation. The performance evaluation of the proposed method is carried out using real measurements coming from a real low voltage feeder located in Switzerland equipped with an appropriate metering infrastructure.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/PSCC.2016.7540852
Web of Science ID

WOS:000382485600040

Author(s)
Mugnier, Carl  
Christakou, Konstantina  
Jaton, Joel
Carpita, Mauro  
Paolone, Mario  
Editors
Bell, Keith
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Paolone, Mario  
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

Publisher place

Genoa, Italy

Published in
Proceedings of the 19th Power Systems Computation Conference
ISBN of the book

978-88-941051-0-0

Total of pages

7

Start page

1

End page

7

Subjects

Voltage sensitivity coefficients

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Monitoring infrastructure

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Power systems optimal operation

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Voltage control

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Active distribution networks

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
19th Power Systems Computation Conference

Genoa, Italy

June 20-24, 2016

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July 12, 2016
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