A Proactive and Survivability-Constrained Operation Strategy for Enhancing Resilience of Microgrids Using Energy Storage System

A resilience-constrained operation strategy is proposed in this paper using a battery energy storage system (BESS) as a resilience resource. A proactive operation scheme is proposed for the pre-disturbance phase by formulating resiliency cuts for the state of charge (SoC) of BESS units. These resiliency cuts can assure the survivability of critical loads for n intervals after the occurrence of an event. A resilience constraint index is formulated to access the feasibility of the operation model for each selected value of n. In the emergency mode, different possible scenarios are analyzed and a unified survivability enhancement strategy is proposed, which comprises of dynamic penalty costs and target SoC. Dynamic penalty costs can potentially avoid the unnecessary load shedding by shifting it toward the possible end of the scheduling horizon. Similarly, the inclusion of target SoC for the last interval of the scheduling horizon can mitigate the load shedding of critical loads on the following day. A two-step adaptive robust optimization scheme is adopted to incorporate the prevailing uncertainties in loads and renewables in the operation model. Finally, the impact of various decision parameters, involved in the problem formulation, is analyzed with reference to the proposed resilience-constrained operation strategy for hybrid microgrids.