Integration of Preventive and Emergency Responses for Power Grid Resilience Enhancement

• Published in: IEEE transactions on power systems 2017-11, Vol.32 (6), p.4451-4463
• Main Authors: Huang, Gang, Wang, Jianhui, Chen, Chen, Qi, Junjian, Guo, Chuangxin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Blackouts; emergency response; Emergency services; generator re-dispatch; Generators; integrated resilience response; load shedding; natural disasters; optimization; Power grids; Power system faults; Power system restoration; preventive response; Resilience; resilience definition; resilience enhancement; resiliency; robust optimization; situational awareness; Switches; topology switching
• ISSN: 0885-8950; 1558-0679
• DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2685640

Boosting the resilience of power systems is one of the core requirements of smart grid. In this paper, an integrated resilience response framework is proposed, which not only links the situational awareness with resilience enhancement, but also provides effective and efficient responses in both preventive and emergency states. The core of the proposed framework is a two-stage robust mixed-integer optimization model, whose mathematical formulation is presented in this paper as well. To solve the above model, an algorithm based on the nested column-and-constraint generation decomposition is provided, and computational efficiency improvement techniques are proposed. Preventive response in this paper considers generator re-dispatch and topology switching, while emergency response includes generator re-dispatch, topology switching and load shedding. Several numerical simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework and the efficiency of the solution methodology. Key findings include the following: 1) in terms of enhancing power grid resilience, the integrated resilience response is preferable to both independent preventive response and independent emergency response; 2) the power grid resilience could be further enhanced by utilizing topology switching in the integrated resilience response.