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Control of a Battery Energy Storage System Accounting for the Charge Redistribution Effect to Dispatch the Operation of a Medium Voltage Feeder

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

We describe a process to dispatch the operation of a medium voltage distribution feeder and improve its quality-of-service using a battery energy storage system (BESS). It is organized according to a day-ahead and intra-day structure to allow the integrati ...

IEEE2015

Compound Admittance Matrix Estimation of Three-phase Untransposed Power Distribution Grids using Synchrophasor Measurements

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta

The paper considers the problem of estimating the parameters of the compound admittance matrix of three-phase untransposed low-and medium-voltage electrical distribution networks using synchrophasor measurements from phasor measurement units (PMUs). The wo ...

2021

An ADMM-Based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Emil Namor, Enrica Scolari, Luca Fabietti

This paper describes a two-layer control and coordination framework for distributed energy resources. The lower layer is a real-time model predictive control (MPC) executed at 10 s resolution to achieve fine tuning of a given energy setpoint. The upper lay ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

Control of Battery Storage Systems for the Simultaneous Provision of Multiple Services

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor

In this paper, we propose a control framework for a battery energy storage system to provide simultaneously multiple services to the electrical grid. The objective is to maximise the battery exploitation from these services in the presence of uncertainty ( ...

2018

Enhancing the Provision of Ancillary Services from Storage Systems using Smart Transformer and Smart Meters

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Konstantina Christakou

The Smart Transformer, a solid-state transformer with control and communication functionalities, can be the ideal solution for integrating storage into the grid. By leveraging the knowledge of the grid state of distribution grids thanks to smart meters and ...

IEEE2017

Allocation of Active Power Reserve from Active Distribution Networks Using a Cost-Benefit Approach: Application to Swissgrid Network

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Fabrizio Sossan, Mokhtar Bozorg, Mohsen Kalantar Neyestanaki

The flexibility of distributed energy resources (DERs) accommodated in active distribution networks (ADNs) can be aggregated and then used to provide ancillary services to the transmission system. In this context, this paper presents a linear optimization ...

IEEE2019

Large Scale Deployment of PV Units in Existing Distribution Networks: Optimization of the Installation Layout

Jana Darulová, Mario Paolone, Michael Lehning, Fabrizio Sossan, Annelen Kahl, Stuart John Bartlett

In fixed PV installations, the azimuth and tilt of the panels are normally chosen with the objective of maximizing the plant capacity factor. In this paper, we show that when considering distribution networks with densely clustered PV plants, there exist i ...

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy2016

Performance Assessment of Linearized OPF-based Distributed Real-time Predictive Control

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan

We consider the problem of controlling heteroge-neous controllable resources of a distribution network with the objective of achieving a certain power flow at the grid connection point while respecting local grid constraints. The problem is formulated as a ...

IEEE2019

Photovoltaic Model-Based Solar Irradiance Estimators: Performance Comparison and Application to Maximum Power Forecasting

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari

Due to the increasing proportion of distributed photovoltaic (PV) production in the generation mix, the knowledge of the PV generation capacity has become a key factor. In this work, we propose to compute the PV plant maximum power starting from the indire ...

2018

Increasing the PV hosting Capacity of Distribution Grids with Distributed Storage: Siting, Sizing and Costs

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Enrica Scolari

The capacity of electrical distribution systems of hosting photo-voltaic (PV) generation is limited due to the requirements of distribution system operators (DSOs) to respect statutory voltage levels along feeders and not exceed line current limits. Tradit ...

2018

A Receding Horizon Control Approach For Re-Dispatching Stochastic Heterogeneous Resources Accounting for Grid and Battery Losses

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor, Eleni Stai

In this paper, we propose a re-dispatch scheme for radial distribution grids hosting stochastic Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and controllable batteries. At each re-dispatch round, the proposed scheme computes a new dispatch plan that modifies and ex ...

Elsevier2019

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

Dispatching active distribution networks through electrochemical storage systems and demand side management

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Luca Fabietti

In this paper, the problem of dispatching the operation of a distribution feeder comprising a set of heterogeneous resources is investigated. In particular, the main objective is to track a 5-minute resolution trajectory, called the \textit{dispatch plan} ...

2017

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

Performance Comparison of Alternating Direction Optimization Methods for Linear-OPF based Real-time Predictive Control

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Vladimir Sovljanski

The paper contributes to improving the computational performance of controls of distributed energy resources (DERs) in distribution grids for efficient real-time control and short-term scheduling. The considered setting is a distribution grid with heteroge ...

IEEE2021

A System and Method for Dispatching an Operation with Heterogeneous Prosumers

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor

A method for dispatching an operation of a distribution feeder of electrical power into a grid with heterogeneous prosumers, the method comprising the steps of establishing a dispatch plan on a computer by using forecast data of an aggregated consumption a ...

2017

Quantification of Primary Frequency Control Provision from Battery Energy Storage Systems Connected to Active Distribution Networks

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor

In this paper, we consider the provision of primary frequency control by using battery energy storage systems (BESSs). In particular, we use a standard droop-based frequency control for a BESS where the control action (i.e. the BESS power output) consists ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

Computation of ultra-short-term prediction intervals of the power prosumption in active distribution networks

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Fabrizio Sossan, Plouton Grammatikos

Microgrids and, in general, active distribution networks require ultra-short-term prediction, i.e., for subsecond time scales, for specific control decisions. Conventional forecasting methodologies are not effective at such time scales. To address this iss ...

Elsevier2024

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

Allocation of Frequency Control Reserve from Aggregated Resources of Active Distribution Systems

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Fabrizio Sossan, Mokhtar Bozorg, Mohsen Kalantar Neyestanaki

This paper addresses the allocation of frequency control services (FCSs) from aggregated resources of active distribution systems (ARADSs) for balancing the transmission system while considering credible contingencies as well as forecast error of loads and ...

IEEE2018