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Data-Driven Methods and Algorithms in Smart Grids

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 2001

Special Issue Editor

Power Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Interests: network modeling and optimization; algorithms; energy management in power grids; machine learning with applications in power grids; smart grids

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of ‘Data-driven methods and algorithms in Smart Grids’. Power grids are facing a new operational era characterized by cleaner power generation reflected in the exponential penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) and the rapid expansion of transportation electrification (TE), as well as by the embedding of intelligence based on new approaches in computer and data science.

This Special Issue will deal with novel data-driven and machine learning-based techniques for the efficient operation and control of smart grids in the presence of RESs and TE.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Machine learning-based optimization and control of power systems;
  • Data-driven demand-side management;
  • Data analysis methods for handling uncertainties;
  • Machine learning methods for the control or electric vehicles;
  • Machine learning-based control of energy storage systems;
  • Applications of reinforcement learning for efficient energy management;
  • Applications of machine learning and data analytics for smart grid communications;
  • Prediction of consumption and charging prices;
  • Learning for energy markets;
  • Data analytics study of interplay between smart grids and social networks;
  • Comparisons between model-based and data-driven approaches;
  • Combination of model-based and data-driven approaches for the management of smart grids;
  • Frequency control with machine learning.

Dr. Eleni Stai
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • optimization and control of smart grids
  • machine learning for smart grids
  • pricing schemes
  • electric vehicles control
  • demand-side management
  • energy storage systems
  • uncertainties
  • energy management
  • reinforcement learning
  • smart grid communications
  • energy markets
  • frequency control

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22 pages, 4649 KiB  
Article
Computing Day-Ahead Dispatch Plans for Active Distribution Grids Using a Reinforcement Learning Based Algorithm
by Eleni Stai, Josua Stoffel and Gabriela Hug
Energies 2022, 15(23), 9017; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239017 - 29 Nov 2022
Cited by 2 | Viewed by 1432
Abstract
The worldwide aspiration for a sustainable energy future has led to an increasing deployment of variable and intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs). As a result, predicting and planning the operation of power grids has become more complex. Batteries can play a critical role [...] Read more.
The worldwide aspiration for a sustainable energy future has led to an increasing deployment of variable and intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs). As a result, predicting and planning the operation of power grids has become more complex. Batteries can play a critical role to this problem as they can absorb the uncertainties introduced by RESs. In this paper, we solve the problem of computing a dispatch plan for a distribution grid with RESs and batteries with a novel approach based on Reinforcement Learning (RL). Although RL is not inherently suited for planning problems that require open loop policies, we have developed an iterative algorithm that calls a trained RL agent at each iteration to compute the dispatch plan. Since the feedback given to the RL agent cannot be directly observed because the dispatch plan is computed ahead of operation, it is estimated. Compared to the conventional approach of scenario-based optimization, our RL-based approach can exploit significantly more prior information on the uncertainty and computes dispatch plans faster. Our evaluation and comparative results demonstrate the accuracy of the computed dispatch plans as well as the adaptability of our agent to input data that diverge from the training data. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Methods and Algorithms in Smart Grids)
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