Islanding and Scheduling of Power Distribution Systems With Distributed Generation

This paper presents a short-term power regulation mechanism for post-segmentation power distribution systems in the presence of severe fault or large disturbance. Firstly, load priority is introduced into system separation and centroids of load clusters are allocated at nodes with distributed sources, respecting power balance and network connectedness. Secondly, fast power flow calculation is performed on the primarily formed islands to resolve load interruption for operational feasibility of partitions from power quality perspective. Then the effect of distributed generation fluctuations on durable operation of subsystems with various optimization objectives is examined. The load response is instructed by the proposed cost-based pricing scheme contemplating consumers' willingness. In addition, the influence of network congestion and load controllability on results of economic scheduling is investigated. Numerical results from the PG&E-69 distribution system are used to show the effectiveness of the developed model in radial structure load clusters. Illustration on the IEEE 118-bus case further proves its robustness and practicability for other distribution systems applications. This property is also useful for transmission switching and micro-grid applications.