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Data-Enabled Distribution Grid Management, Zohreh Sadat Hosseini
Data-Enabled Distribution Grid Management, Zohreh Sadat Hosseini
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In 2020, U.S. electric utilities installed more than 94 million advanced meters, which brought the percentage of residential customers equipped with smart meters to 75%. This significant investment allows collecting extensive customer data at the distribution level, however, the data are not currently leveraged effectively to help with system operations. This dissertation aims to use the smart meters’ data to improve the grid’s reliability, stability, and controllability by solving two of the most challenging problems at the distribution level, namely distribution network phase identification and outage identification.
Distribution networks have typically been the least observable and most dynamic and locally …
Data-Centric Situational Awareness And Management In Intelligent Power Systems, Xiaoxiao Dai
Data-Centric Situational Awareness And Management In Intelligent Power Systems, Xiaoxiao Dai
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The rapid development of technology and society has made the current power system a much more complicated system than ever. The request for big data based situation awareness and management becomes urgent today. In this dissertation, to respond to the grand challenge, two data-centric power system situation awareness and management approaches are proposed to address the security problems in the transmission/distribution grids and social benefits augmentation problem at the distribution-customer lever, respectively.
To address the security problem in the transmission/distribution grids utilizing big data, the first approach provides a fault analysis solution based on characterization and analytics of the synchrophasor …