no code implementations • 26 Nov 2023 • Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Rongxing Hu, Ashwin Shirsat, Mesut Baran, Ning Lu, Wenyuan Tang, David Lubkeman
This papers highlights the benefit of coordinating resources on mulitple active distribution feeders during severe long duration outages through multi-microgrid formation.
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2023 • Han Pyo Lee, Keith DSouza, Ke Chen, Ning Lu, Mesut Baran
However, the effectiveness of this scheme is not well documented, and there is limited literature on alternative control and placement schemes that can maximize the effective use of a DVC.
no code implementations • 19 Jan 2023 • Rongxing Hu, Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Si Zhang, Yiyan Li, Lidong Song, Bei Xu, Victor Paduani, Ning Lu, Mesut Baran, Wenyuan Tang
This paper presents a novel 2-stage microgrid unit commitment (Microgrid-UC) algorithm considering cold-load pickup (CLPU) effects, three-phase load balancing requirements, and feasible reconfiguration options.
no code implementations • 21 Sep 2022 • Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Yue Shi, Mesut Baran
This paper focuses on the effective use of smart inverters for Volt/Var control (VVC) on a distribution system.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2022 • Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Ashwin Shirsat, Rongxing Hu, Victor Paduani, Bei Xu, Yiyan Li, Mesut Baran, Ning Lu, David Lubkeman, Wenyuan Tang
The management of such feeder-level microgrid has however many challenges, such as limited resources that can be deployed on the feeder quickly, and the limited real-time monitoring and control on the distribution system.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2022 • Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Rongxing Hu, Victor Paduani, Bei Xu, Lidong Song, Yiyan Li, Ning Lu, Mesut Baran, David Lubkeman, Wenyuan Tang
Distribution system integrated community microgrids (CMGs) can partake in restoring loads during extended duration outages.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2021 • Han Pyo Lee, Mingzhi Zhang, Mesut Baran, Ning Lu, PJ Rehm, Edmond Miller, Matthew Makdad
To improve the identification accuracy, a data segmentation method is proposed to exclude data segments that are collected when the voltage correlation between smart meters on the same phase are weakened.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2020 • Ashwin Shirsat, Valliappan Muthukaruppan, Rongxing Hu, Ning Lu, Mesut Baran, David Lubkeman, Wenyuan Tang
The intermediate near real-time scheduling stage updates the DA schedule closer to the dispatch time, followed by the RT dispatch stage.
no code implementations • 9 Jan 2020 • Qinmiao Li, Mesut Baran
Increasing penetration of Photovoltaic (PV) generation brings an opportunity, and sometimes necessity, for this new resource to provide ancillary services such as frequency support.