# IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

## Issue 2 • March 2019

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Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):C1 - 1170
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid publication information

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s): C2
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• ### Participation of an Energy Storage Aggregator in Electricity Markets

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1171 - 1183
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An important function of aggregators is to enable the participation of small energy storage units in electricity markets. This paper studies two generally overlooked aspects related to aggregators of energy storage: 1) the relationship between the aggregator and its constituent storage units and 2) the aggregator’s effect on system welfare. Regarding 1), we show that short-term outcomes can be Par... View full abstract»

• ### Coordination of Distributed Energy Storage Under Spatial and Temporal Data Asymmetry

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1184 - 1194
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We consider the problem of controlling distributed storage in a network with renewable distributed generation to minimize operational cost while satisfying power quality constraints. We assume control is distributed between a global controller (GC) and local controllers (LCs) located at the nodes with storage units. Each LC has access to its most recent net load data and runs at every time step wh... View full abstract»

• ### A Real-Time Self-Healing Methodology Using Model- and Measurement-Based Islanding Algorithms

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1195 - 1204
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In this paper, a new real-time defensive islanding method, which is adaptive to the operating conditions is proposed. In the method, a number of candidate islanding schemes are generated using both model- and measurement-based islanding algorithms after detecting a severe fault in the system by means of a new severity index based on generator bus voltage frequency measurements. Of model-based algo... View full abstract»

• ### Aggregation and Disaggregation of Energetic Flexibility From Distributed Energy Resources

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1205 - 1214
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A variety of energy resources has been identified as being flexible in their electric energy consumption or generation. This energetic flexibility can be used for various purposes such as minimizing energy procurement costs or providing ancillary services to power grids. To fully leverage the flexibility available from distributed small-scale resources, their flexibility must be quantified and agg... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Unscented Kalman Filter for Power System Dynamic State Estimation With Unknown Noise Statistics

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1215 - 1224
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Due to the communication channel noises, GPS synchronization process, changing environment temperature and different operating conditions of the system, the statistics of the system process and measurement noises may be unknown and they may not follow Gaussian distributions. As a result, the traditional Kalman filter-based dynamic state estimators may provide strongly biased state estimates. To ad... View full abstract»

• ### Balancing Security and Efficiency for Smart Metering Against Misbehaving Collectors

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1225 - 1236
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Smart grid enables two-way communications between smart meters and operation centers to collect real-time power consumption of customers to improve flexibility, reliability, and efficiency of the power system. It brings serious privacy issues to customers, since the meter readings possibly expose customers’ activities in the house. Data encryption can protect the readings, but lengthens the data s... View full abstract»

• ### Buildings-to-Grid Integration Framework

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1237 - 1249
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This paper puts forth a mathematical framework for buildings-to-grid (BtG) integration in smart cities. The framework explicitly couples power grid and building’s control actions and operational decisions, and can be utilized by buildings and power grids operators to simultaneously optimize their performance. Simplified dynamics of building clusters and building-integrated power n... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Communication-Based Average Voltage Regulation Scheme for a Droop Controlled DC Microgrid

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1250 - 1258
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In a dc microgrid, enhanced voltage regulation (VR) and load sharing (LS) are necessary for the economic and reliable operation of the system. Traditionally, droop control is used for LS in microgrids. However, because of the nature of the droop control, good VR and accurate LS cannot be achieved simultaneously. To overcome this drawback, a low-bandwidth, communication-based average VR technique a... View full abstract»

• ### Power Management Method for Large Ports With Multi-Agent Systems

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1259 - 1268
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Full electrification and intelligent energy networks compose a very promising solution for the improvement of the efficiency of large ports. Ports comprise a large number of flexible electric loads like refrigerated containers, electric vehicles, electric shore power supplies to ships at berth etc. Smart grids can provide efficient solutions to maximize the flexibility of port power demand and inc... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Reactive Power Control of PV Power Plants for Improved Power Transfer Capability Under Ultra-Weak Grid Conditions

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1269 - 1279
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This paper analyzes the power transfer limitation of the photovoltaic (PV) power plant under the ultra-weak grid condition, i.e., when the short-circuit ratio (SCR) is close to 1. It explicitly identifies that a minimum SCR of 2 is required for the PV power plant to deliver the rated active power when operating with the unity power factor. Then, considering the reactive power compensation from PV ... View full abstract»

• ### Screening Hidden N- $k$ Line Contingencies in Smart Grids Using a Multi-Stage Model

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1280 - 1289
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This paper addresses an issue in the contingency screening that the probabilities of some high-order N-k contingencies involving multiple element failures may be significantly underestimated in the traditional screening processes. Considering the severe consequences of these hidden contingencies, this practice would impose a potential risk to the system operations. In this paper, ... View full abstract»

• ### Microgrid: Configurations, Control and Applications

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1290 - 1302
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This paper deals with a comprehensive study of configurations of microgrid (MG) based on variable speed generators. The selection criteria for these configurations along with the design of required control algorithms, are presented in detail. Simulation results and experimental validation of selected MG configurations are given to demonstrate their suitability. It is aimed to enhance applications ... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Control of Inverter-Interfaced Microgrids Based on Consensus Algorithm With Improved Transient Performance

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1303 - 1312
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Conventional control solutions of the inverter-interfaced microgrids are usually designed based on models with fully decoupled subsystems. The negligence of the strong coupling due to power lines impedance leads to large transient line currents, which might trigger false protection. Besides, the droop-based control methods unnecessarily introduce system frequency and voltage deviations. To overcom... View full abstract»

• ### Integrated PV Charging of EV Fleet Based on Energy Prices, V2G, and Offer of Reserves

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1313 - 1325
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Workplace charging of electric vehicles (EVs) from photovoltaic (PV) panels installed on an office building can provide several benefits. This includes the local production and use of PV energy for charging the EV and making use of dynamic tariffs from the grid to schedule the energy exchange with the grid. The long parking time at the workplace provides the chance for the EV to support the grid v... View full abstract»

• ### A Data-Driven Methodology for Probabilistic Wind Power Ramp Forecasting

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1326 - 1338
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With increasing wind penetration, wind power ramps (WPRs) are currently drawing great attention to balancing authorities, since these wind ramps largely affect power system operations. To help better manage and dispatch the wind power, this paper develops a data-driven probabilistic WPR forecasting (p-WPRF) method based on a large number of simulated scenarios. A machine learning technique is firs... View full abstract»

• ### Cloud-Centric Collaborative Security Service Placement for Advanced Metering Infrastructures

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1339 - 1348
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The extensive integration of smart meters to utility communication networks introduces numerous cyber security concerns. Such meters are the primary access points to a smart grid advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). They are physically unprotected devices that are geographically distributed in low-trust environments. Nonetheless, they are expected to transceive vital information regarding consu... View full abstract»

• ### Controlling the Electrical State via Uncertain Power Injections in Three-Phase Distribution Networks

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1349 - 1362
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We consider the problem of controlling the electrical state of a three-phase distribution network by enforcing the explicit power injection. More precisely, we assume that the power injection is constrained to reside in some uncertainty set, and the problem is to ensure that the electrical state remains in a set that satisfies feasibility constraints. To formalize this, we say that a set S of powe... View full abstract»

• ### Recent Advances in Local Energy Trading in the Smart Grid Based on Game-Theoretic Approaches

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1363 - 1371
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The global move toward efficient energy consumption and production has led to remarkable advancements in the design of the smart grid infrastructure. Local energy trading is one way forward. It typically refers to the transfer of energy from an entity of the smart grid surplus energy to one with a deficit. In this paper, we present a detailed review of the recent advances in the application of gam... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Scheduling of Battery Charging Station Serving Electric Vehicles Based on Battery Swapping

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1372 - 1384
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A battery charging station (BCS) is a charging facility that supplies electric energy for recharging electric vehicles’ depleted batteries (DBs). A BCS has a certain number of charging bays and maintains a dynamic inventory of fully charged batteries (FBs). This paper studies a BCS scheduling (BCSS) problem whose target is to schedule the charging processes of the charging bays such that the charg... View full abstract»

• ### Fault Detection During Power Swings Using the Properties of Fundamental Frequency Phasors

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1385 - 1394
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Among short-circuit faults, those occurring during power swings are more harmful to power system stability and thus, they should be detected quickly and reliably. However, discrimination of power swing and such kinds of faults is not always easy, especially in case of three-phase faults which are symmetrical similar to power swings. This paper shows that fundamental frequency phasors of voltage an... View full abstract»

• ### Multi-Agent Consensus Design for Heterogeneous Energy Storage Devices With Droop Control in Smart Grids

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1395 - 1404
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This paper proposes a distributed control architecture for battery energy storage systems (BESSs) based on multi-agent system framework. The active/reactive power sharing, the frequency/voltage, and the energy of BESSs are synchronized by exchanging local information with a few other neighboring BESSs. Two consensus algorithms namely leaderless and leader–follower are proposed. The proposed contro... View full abstract»

• ### Computationally Efficient Market Simulation Tool for Future Grid Scenario Analysis

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1405 - 1416
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This paper proposes a computationally efficient electricity market simulation tool (MST) suitable for future grid scenario analysis. The market model is based on a unit commitment (UC) problem and takes into account the uptake of emerging technologies, like demand response, battery storage, concentrated solar thermal generation, and HVDC transmission. To allow for a subsequent stability assessment... View full abstract»

• ### Exploring Key Weather Factors From Analytical Modeling Toward Improved Solar Power Forecasting

Publication Year: 2019, Page(s):1417 - 1427
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Accurate solar power forecasting plays a critical role in ensuring the reliable and economic operation of power grids. Most of existing literature directly uses available weather conditions as input features, which might ignore some key weather factors and the coupling among weather conditions. Therefore, a novel solar power forecasting approach is proposed in this paper by exploring key weather f... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

The IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid is a cross disciplinary and internationally archival journal aimed at disseminating results of research on smart grid that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences energy generation, transmission, distribution and delivery. The journal publishes original research on theories and development on principles of smart grid technologies and systems. The Transactions also welcomes manuscripts on design, implementation and evaluation of power systems that are affected by smart grid. Surveys of existing work on smart grid may also be considered for publication when they propose a new viewpoint on history and a challenging perspective on the future of smart grid.

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