Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems

Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2019

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Main Author: Davuluri, Sruthi.
Other Authors: Christopher Knittel and Marija Ilic.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122161
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spelling mit-1721.1/1221612022-01-31T19:03:39Z Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems Davuluri, Sruthi. Christopher Knittel and Marija Ilic. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Technology and Policy Program. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Technology and Policy Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Technology and Policy Program. Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2019 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-93). Electricity power systems, typically a very slow-moving and traditional industry, is in a state of flux as technological innovations, such as rooftop solar, home energy management systems, and electric vehicles, are being rapidly integrated into electric distribution systems. As the need to decarbonize the electricity sector becomes increasingly important, a distribution system operator could serve a useful purpose by operating distribution systems and acting as the market operator at a sufficiently granular level to potentially improve resiliency, decrease delivery losses, and send appropriate price signals to its customers. Currently, this latter functionality is assumed to be done using centralized economic dispatch. Given a very large number of small customers and their diverse preferences, it would be computationally expensive to implement centralized economic dispatch at the distribution level with perfect information. In this thesis, an alternative algorithm, referred to as decentralized economic dispatch, is introduced which dispatches power for radial electric distribution systems while accounting for heterogeneous demand functions across customers, demonstrating computationally feasibility, and respecting the physical limits of the system. Unlike other approaches proposed in literature, which often take many iterations or do not converge, the algorithm introduced here converges to the same solution as a centralized operator with perfect information, and does so with only two sweeps across the system. A proof-of-concept example on a 46-bus system demonstrates the physical and economic benefits of the distributed algorithm with varying levels of distributed energy resources. by Sruthi Davuluri. S.M. in Technology and Policy S.M.inTechnologyandPolicy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society 2019-09-16T21:17:58Z 2019-09-16T21:17:58Z 2019 2019 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122161 1117774189 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 93 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Technology and Policy Program.
Davuluri, Sruthi.
Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems
title Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems
title_full Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems
title_fullStr Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems
title_full_unstemmed Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems
title_short Decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems
title_sort decentralized economic dispatch for radial electric distribution systems
topic Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Technology and Policy Program.
url https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122161
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