Effects of Producer and Transmission Reliability on the Sustainability Assessment of Power System Networks

Jose R. Vargas-Jaramillo, Jhon A. Montanez-Barrera, Michael R. von Spakovsky, Lamine Mili and Sergio Cano-Andrade
Additional contact information
Jose R. Vargas-Jaramillo: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, GTO 36885, Mexico
Jhon A. Montanez-Barrera: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, GTO 36885, Mexico
Michael R. von Spakovsky: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Lamine Mili: Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northern Virginia Center, Virginia Tech, Falls Church, VA 22043, USA
Sergio Cano-Andrade: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, GTO 36885, Mexico

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-21

Abstract: Details are presented of the development and incorporation of a generation and transmission reliability approach in an upper-level sustainability assessment framework for power system planning. This application represents a quasi-stationary, multiobjective optimization problem with nonlinear constraints, load uncertainties, stochastic effects for renewable energy producers, and the propagation of uncertainties along the transmission lines. The Expected Energy Not Supplied (EENS) accounts for generation and transmission reliability and is based on a probabilistic as opposed to deterministic approach. The optimization is developed for three scenarios. The first excludes uncertainties in the load demand, while the second includes them. The third scenario accounts not only for these uncertainties, but also for the stochastic effects related to wind and photovoltaic producers. The sustainability-reliability approach is applied to the standard IEEE Reliability Test System. Results show that using a Mixture of Normals Approximation (MONA) for the EENS formulation makes the reliability analysis simpler, as well as possible within a large-scale optimization. In addition, results show that the inclusion of renewable energy producers has some positive impact on the optimal synthesis/design of power networks under sustainability considerations. Also shown is the negative impact of renewable energy producers on the reliability of the power network.

Keywords: reliability; sustainability; IEEE-RTS; uncertainties; MONA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/3/546/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/3/546/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:3:p:546-:d:204660

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().