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Digitalization in hydropower generation: development and numerical validation of a model-based Smart Power Plant Supervisor

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Elena Vagnoni, Francesco Gerini

The paper presents the development of a model-based Smart Power Plant Supervisor, a digital tool targeting the optimization of the operation and maintenance of hydroelectric units to improve ancillary services provision to the power system. The paper focus ...

IOP Publishing2021

Optimal siting and sizing of distributed energy storage systems via alternating direction method of multipliers

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mostafa Nick

Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) has an important role in Active Distribution Networks (ADNs). Within this context this paper focuses on the problem of ESSs optimal siting and sizing. Following similar approaches already proposed by the Authors, this paper us ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2014

Experimental Assessment of the Prediction Performance of Dynamic Equivalent Circuit Models of Grid-connected Battery Energy Storage Systems

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor, Enrica Scolari

The paper discusses the model identification, validation and experimental testing of current-to-voltage dynamic circuit models for a grid-connected MW-class battery. The model refers to an utility-scale 720 kVA/560 kWh battery energy storage system (BESS) ...

IEEE2018

Forecasting price spikes in European day-ahead electricity markets using decision trees

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui

Although the techniques for normal price prediction are well advanced, price spike prediction remains a challenge. The aim of this paper is to present a method to predict both normal day-ahead electricity prices as well as day-ahead price spikes using clas ...

IEEE2015

Optimal Load Restoration in Active Distribution Networks Complying With Starting Transients of Induction Motors

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Hossein Sekhavatmanesh

Large horsepower induction motors play a critical role as industrial drives in production facilities. The operational safety of distribution networks during the starting transients of these motor loads is a critical concern for the operators. In this paper ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Is Being Flexible Advantageous for Demands?

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Farzaneh Abbaspourtorbati

This paper analyzes the impacts of flexible demands on day-ahead market outcomes in a system with significant wind power production. We use a two-stage stochastic market-clearing model, where the first stage represents the day-ahead market and the second s ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Assessment of Total Transfer Capability for simultaneous transactions in decentralized multi-areas power systems

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui

With the liberalization of the electricity market, the cross-boarder transactions have become more common but set up new problems due to the non-existence of a global interconnected network operator which would have a whole knowledge of such electrical sys ...

IEEE2012

Probabilistic assessment of the process-noise covariance matrix of discrete Kalman filter state estimation of active distribution networks

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Styliani Sarri

The accuracy of state estimators using the Kalman Filter (KF) is largely influenced by the measurement and the process noise covariance matrices. The former can be directly inferred from the available measurement devices whilst the latter needs to be asses ...

IEEE2014

Multi-Area Energy and Reserve Dispatch Under Wind Uncertainty and Equipment Failures

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Ali Ahmadi Khatir

The cross-border trading among electricity markets in an interconnected multi-area system (e.g., in central Europe) and the integration of renewable resources (e.g., wind energy) have remarkably increased in recent years. To efficiently operate such system ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Optimal Allocation of ESSs in Active Distribution Networks to achieve their Dispatchability

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Ji Hyun Yi

This paper presents a method for the optimal siting and sizing of energy storage systems (ESSs) in active distribution networks (ADNs) to achieve their dispatchability. The problem formulation accounts for the uncertainty inherent to the stochastic nature ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Coordinated emergency control of load shedding and FACTS devices

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Alexandre Oudalov

This paper describes the development of a control system and control strategies capable of governing multiple flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) devices in coordination with load shedding. The main purpose of the presented coordinated control system i ...

IEEE2005

Load Leveling and Dispatchability of a Medium Voltage Active Feeder through Battery Energy Storage Systems: Formulation of the Control Problem and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a control algorithm for a grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) to level the consumption of a group of prosumers and dispatch their aggregated operation. The control strategy is layered in a tw ...

2016

Distributed Bidding Strategy for an Aggregator Valuing Uncertain Prosumers in Energy and Ancillary Service Markets

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Amir Hamidi Moghanjooghi

Aggregators have an influential intermediary role to exploit the flexibility of prosumers like smart homes for procuring the required capacity of ancillary services to support power systems. Local generation and consumption uncertainties of prosumers affec ...

IEEE2023

A pre-estimation filtering process of bad data for linear power systems state estimators using PMUs

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Styliani Sarri

The paper proposes a specific algorithm for the pre-estimation filtering of bad data (BD) in PMU-based power systems linear State Estimators (SEs). The approach is framed in the context of the so-called real-time SEs that take advantage of the high measure ...

Wroclaw University of Technology2014

Fault Detection and Faulted Line Identification in Active Distribution Networks Using Synchrophasors-based Real-Time State Estimation

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni

We intend to prove that PMU-based state estimation processes for active distribution networks exhibit unique time determinism and refresh rate that make them suitable to satisfy the time-critical requirements of protections as well as the accuracy requirem ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Coordinating strategic aggregators in an active distribution network for providing operational flexibility

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mokhtar Bozorg

The support of distributed energy resources (DERs) for providing operational flexibility can be beneficial from the transmission system operators' (TSOs') viewpoint. Despite all opportunities, using DERs within an active distribution network (ADN) for prov ...

Elsevier2020

Achieving the Dispatchability of Distribution Feeders Through Prosumers Data Driven Forecasting and Model Predictive Control of Electrochemical Storage

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor

We propose and experimentally validate a process to dispatch the operation of a distribution feeder with heterogeneous prosumers according to a trajectory with 5 min resolution, called dispatch plan, established the day before the operation. The controllab ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Improvement of Dynamic Modeling of Supercapacitor by Residual Charge Effects Estimation

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Dimitri Torregrossa, Emil Namor, Maryam Bahramipanah

The paper presents a set of experimental investigations related to the dynamic behavior of supercapacitors. The experimentally observed results are then used as inputs for the development of an improved version of one of the most common supercapacitor RC-e ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

On the vulnerability Analysis against IEMI

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Nicolas Mora Parra, Gaspard Lugrin

Vulnerability is estimated in terms of the effects that IEMI may induce to the services provided by the facility under study. We estimate the vulnerability by considering three variables: the likelihood, the risk, and the hardness. The different parameters ...

2012

Méthodes heuristiques pour la recherche de configurations optimales d'un réseau électrique de distribution

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui

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