Grant: Strategic Projects - Group
University of British Columbia
$140,000.00
Smart adaptive distribution systems for the new smart grid
EF 2015-16
Résumé
Smart grid electrical systems are being deployed at an accelerated rate worldwide. About 200 million smart meters have been installed to this time worldwide, 40 million of them in North America. The next major challenge for the industry and its shareholders is to develop applications that can justify this investment. While the deployment of smart meters, solar and wind generation, smart energy systems, microgrids, and electrical vehicles is happening at the customer level, power distribution systems, which are the direct interface between the power utility and the new smart grid systems, remain basically unchanged.
It is estimated by major energy systems think tanks that the next major step in the evolution of the power grid will be the integration of distribution systems automation (DA) with the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). The goal of this project is to develop Distribution System Automation tools at substation and feeder levels that can increase the degree of sophistication of these systems to match the requirements of the customer-level smart energy systems.
The project focuses on Feeder Side Management (FSM) to even out the load and spare capacity requirements of individual feeders. Even though Demand Side Management (DSM) can contribute to flatten the demand curve at the customer level, FSM can result in considerable savings in system capacity costs by evening out the load carrying responsibility among multiple feeders.
To accommodate for peak load values and maintain continuity of supply during faults, distribution feeders at present have a large value of capacity redundancy. This project will use the vast amount of data that will be made available by smart meters at the customer and feeder levels to develop novel load dynamics and load forecasting models which, combined with feeder reconfiguration strategies, can considerably reduce the needed feeder spare capacity. It is expected that considerable savings in distribution system substation and feeder investments will result from the deployment of these technologies.
Programme
Strategic Projects - Group
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
British Columbia, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
430641-2012
Name nom
Marti, Jose
Department département
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Organization id
2
Institution établissement
University of British Columbia
Province en
British Columbia
Province fr
Colombie-Britannique
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2015
Competition year année de concours
2012
Award amount
140000
Program id
STPGP
Program name en
Strategic Projects - Group
Program name fr
Projets stratégiques - De groupe
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1571
Committee name en
Strategic Projects Selection Panel - Energy
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection des projets stratégiques - Énergie
Area of application code
300
Area of application group en
Energy resources
Area of application group fr
Ressources d'énergie
Area of application en
Energy resources (including production, exploration, processing, distribution and use)
Area of application fr
Ressources d'énergie (production, exploration, traitement, distribution et utilisation de l'énergie)
Research subject code
2501
Research subject group en
Electrical and electronic engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie électrique et électronique
Research subject en
Power systems
Research subject fr
Réseaux électriques
Partie
3
Nb partie
3
Application title
Smart adaptive distribution systems for the new smart grid
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Smart grid electrical systems are being deployed at an accelerated rate worldwide. About 200 million smart meters have been installed to this time worldwide, 40 million of them in North America. The next major challenge for the industry and its shareholders is to develop applications that can justify this investment. While the deployment of smart meters, solar and wind generation, smart energy systems, microgrids, and electrical vehicles is happening at the customer level, power distribution systems, which are the direct interface between the power utility and the new smart grid systems, remain basically unchanged.
It is estimated by major energy systems think tanks that the next major step in the evolution of the power grid will be the integration of distribution systems automation (DA) with the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). The goal of this project is to develop Distribution System Automation tools at substation and feeder levels that can increase the degree of sophistication of these systems to match the requirements of the customer-level smart energy systems.
The project focuses on Feeder Side Management (FSM) to even out the load and spare capacity requirements of individual feeders. Even though Demand Side Management (DSM) can contribute to flatten the demand curve at the customer level, FSM can result in considerable savings in system capacity costs by evening out the load carrying responsibility among multiple feeders.
To accommodate for peak load values and maintain continuity of supply during faults, distribution feeders at present have a large value of capacity redundancy. This project will use the vast amount of data that will be made available by smart meters at the customer and feeder levels to develop novel load dynamics and load forecasting models which, combined with feeder reconfiguration strategies, can considerably reduce the needed feeder spare capacity. It is expected that considerable savings in distribution system substation and feeder investments will result from the deployment of these technologies.
