Extreme weather events are one of the main causes of large-scale power outages in distribution systems. The changing climate has led to an increase in the frequency and severity of these events, which, if not mitigated, are expected to lead to more i...
One of the most critical infrastructures in the world is electrical power grids (EPGs). New threats affecting EPGs, and their different consequences, are analyzed in this survey along with different approaches that can be taken to prevent or minimize...
This paper presents a framework to systematically measure and assess power grids’ resilience with a focus on performance as perceived by customers at the power distribution level. The proposed framework considers an analogous measure of availability...
This article provides a comprehensive review of power grid resilience, including current metrics and definitions, as well as the procedures used to ensure and improve the resilience of a system. We also describe the different strategies used by users...
To ensure the sustainability of the future power grid, the rate of expansion of distributed energy resources (DERs) has introduced operational challenges. These include managing transmission constraints with DER power injection, dispatching DERs effi...
The growth of renewable energy generation in the power grid brings attention to high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission as a valuable solution for stabilizing the system. Robust hybrid power system state estimation could enhance the resilienc...
Natural disasters can lead to large-scale power outages, affecting critical infrastructure and causing social and economic damages. These events are exacerbated by climate change, which increases their frequency and magnitude. Improving power grid re...
Smart grid systems play a significant role in improving the resilience of distribution systems (DSs). In this paper, two strategies are proposed for implementation of a smart grid application: (a) a network reconfiguration and (b) a network reconfigu...
While power system resilience studies continue to grow due to the criticality of electrical infrastructures, the challenge of inconsistencies in evaluation frameworks remains. Furthermore, the desire for researchers to contribute towards the developm...
Ensuring a reliable and uninterrupted supply of electricity is crucial for sustaining modern and advanced societies. Traditionally, power systems analysis was mostly dependent on formal commercial software, mathematical models produced via a mix of d...
In high-impact, low-probability (HILP) events, resilience is defined as the ability of a system to return to a normal operating state after a failure. The generalization of information technologies and distributed renewable production is transforming...
In view of the high impact of extreme disasters, this paper comprehensively evaluates power grid performance from a new low-carbon toughness perspective. First, considering the increase in carbon emissions and the recovery time of carbon emissions, l...
The authors of this paper analyze the use of biogas-powered micro-Combined Heat and Power (micro-CHP) systems for residential microgrids to enhance their resilience during blackouts. With the increasing frequency of natural disasters, ensuring power...
Grid-forming converters (GFMCs) play an increasingly vital role in integrating renewable energy sources into modern power systems. This article reviews GFMCs, emphasizing their importance in enabling reliable, stable, and resilient operation as power...
The existing literature on power grid reliability extensively examines the effects of individual automation technologies, such as Smart Grids, IoT, and AI, on reducing SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) and SAIFI (System Average Inter...
The problem of power grid capacity expansion focuses on adding or modernizing generation and transmission resources to respond to the rise in demand over a long-term planning period. Traditionally, the problem has been mainly viewed from technical an...
Natural disasters have great destructive power and can potentially wipe out great lengths of power lines. A resilient grid can recover from adverse conditions and restore service quickly. Therefore, the present work proposes a novel methodology to re...
In today’s world, power distribution systems and information and communication technology (ICT) systems are increasingly interconnected, forming cyber–physical power systems (CPPSs) at the core of smart grids. Ensuring the resilience of t...
The introduction of pervasive telecommunication devices, in the scope of smart grids (SGs), has accentuated interest in the distribution network, which integrates a huge portion of new grid applications. High impact low probability (HILP) events, suc...
Nowadays, the main grid is facing several challenges related to the integration of renewable energy resources, deployment of grid-level energy storage devices, deployment of new usages such as the electric vehicle, massive usage of power electronic d...
The increasing deployment of photovoltaic-storage systems in distribution-level microgrids introduces a critical control conflict: traditional maximum power point tracking algorithms aim to maximize energy harvest, while grid-forming inverter control...
Finding an appropriate technique to detect an islanding issue is one of the major challenges associated with the design of a resilient grid-linked photovoltaic-based distributed power generation (PV-DPG) system. In general, the technique used for isl...
A review of the ongoing research on black start (BS) service integrated with offshore wind farms (OWFs) is presented in this paper. The overall goal is to firstly gain a better understanding of the BS capabilities required by modern power systems. Su...
Amidst the accelerating growth of intelligent power systems, the integrity of vast and complex datasets has become essential to promoting sustainable energy management, ensuring energy security, and supporting green living initiatives. This study int...
As a key enabling technology for energy transition, the smart grid is propelling the global power system to evolve toward greater efficiency, reliability, and sustainability. Based on the three-dimensional analysis framework of “technology&ndas...
In the post-disaster recovery of power distribution networks (PDNs), electric vehicles (EVs) possess a great potential as mobile energy storage units. When supported by vehicle-to-grid (V2G)-enabled charging stations, EVs can provide effective supple...
The subway power supply system, as a critical component of urban rail transit infrastructure, plays a pivotal role in ensuring operational efficiency and safety. However, current systems remain heavily dependent on manual interventions for fault diag...
Smart grid (SG), an evolving concept in the modern power infrastructure, enables the two-way flow of electricity and data between the peers within the electricity system networks (ESN) and its clusters. The self-healing capabilities of SG allow the p...
With recent technological advancements, advanced communication technology, sensors and distributed generation (DG), it is an undeniable fact that modern power systems are flooded with massive amounts of data. These vast amount of generated data are d...
Low-voltage distribution grids face new challenges through the expansion of decentralized, renewable energy generation and the electrification of the heat and mobility sectors. We present a multi-agent system consisting of the energy management syste...
The reliability and robustness of global electrical networks are being impacted by the reciprocal effects of climate change and severe weather events. This article assesses research and collaborative trends to further these concerns. This study attem...
High penetration of green energy sources presents substantial challenges to grid stability and resilience, primarily due to inherent voltage and frequency variability, which worsens during critical events. This study proposes an integrated framework...
In a context of accelerating deployment of distributed generation in power distribution grid, this work proposes an answer to an important and urgent need for better management tools in order to ‘intelligently’ operate these grids and maintain qualit...
Extreme weather events such as typhoons pose a serious threat to the safe operation of power grids. In the field of power system resilience assessment during typhoon disasters, a parametric typhoon wind field model combined with actual historical met...
Several natural hazards have caused unexpected problems to power systems due to climate change, emphasising the position that power systems are not prepared for extremely large-scale events. As a result, the need to study resilience in the context of...
With the multidisciplinary complexity of resilience challenges, holistic evaluation and enhancement have been the main concerns in resilience research. This paper addresses this gap by demonstrating the integrated analysis of operator response capaci...
Smart-grid technologies are essential to achieving sustainable high-level grid resilience. Integrating sensors and monitoring devices throughout grid infrastructure provides additional data on weather-related parameters in real-time, enabling the sma...
Climate change is increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events, such as intense windstorms, with a trend expected to worsen due to global warming. The growing intensity and frequency of these events are causing a significant number of failures...
This study presents an application for a series VSC (voltage source converter) in distribution grids for power flow management. Series devices have been widely studied for FACTS (flexible AC transmission systems), however, more recently these devices...
Modern power system operation should comply with strictly reliability and security constraints, which aim at guarantee the correct system operation also in the presence of severe internal and external disturbances. Amongst the possible phenomena pert...
Cyber-physical power systems (CPPSs) are increasingly vital to the reliable and resilient operation of modern electricity infrastructure. Within these systems, both physical components—such as power substations and lines—and cyber compone...
This study presents a machine learning-based method for predicting the power grid state subjected to heavy-rain hazards. Machine learning models can recognize key knowledge from a dataset without any preliminary knowledge about the dataset. Hence, ma...
This paper proposes and validates a method for assessing the resilience of cyber–physical microgrids integrating Photovoltaic (PV) generation and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). The approach combines two operational performance indicator...
Disruptive events, such as the winter storm of 2021 that left 40 million people in the U.S. without power, have revealed the potential danger of societal dependence on centralized energy sources. Localized energy grids (called microgrids (MGs)) can h...
Harnessing the abundant solar resources holds great potential for sustainable energy generation. This research paper delves into a comprehensive analysis of seasonal tilt and solar tracking strategy scenarios for a 15 MW grid-connected PV solar power...
Controlled islanding is an important defense mechanism for avoiding blackouts by dividing the system into several stable islands. Sustainable systems that incorporate a high proportion of renewable energy are prone to frequency instability or even se...
For this study, we investigated efficient strategies for the recovery of individual links in power grids governed by the direct current (DC) power flow model, under random link failures. Our primary objective was to explore the efficacy of recovering...
This study explores enhancing the resilience of electric and natural gas networks against extreme events like windstorms and wildfires by integrating parts of the electric power transmissions into the natural gas pipeline network, which is less vulne...
This article presents a method based on a mathematical optimization model for the scheduling operation of a distribution network (DN). The contribution of the proposed method is that it permits the configuration and operation of a DN as a set of virt...
This paper examines the transformative effects of decarbonization on electricity market design, emphasizing the challenges and opportunities posed by the rapid integration of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. It analyzes the evolution...
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