Electric Power System Transformations: A Review of Main Prospects and Challenges

Nikolai Voropai
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Nikolai Voropai: Energy Systems Institute, Lermontov Str., 130, 664033 Irkutsk, Russia

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: The paper deals with the main prospects and challenges of radical transformations of electric power systems (EPSs) with changes in their structure and properties conditioned by wide use of innovative energy-related technologies and digitalization and intellectualization of system operation and control. Structural trends of EPS development are the focus of the analysis. Consideration is given to changes in EPS properties driven by the use of new technologies, to the problems of system flexibility and to its enhancement. EPS “resiliency” and “survivability” notions are subjected to comparison. The main factors favoring the formation of future EPSs to cyber-physical systems are discussed. Objective trends of EPS control and protection system development are under consideration.

Keywords: electric power systems; innovative technologies; transformation; trends; structure; properties; flexibility; survivability (resiliency); control and protection systems (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: 2020
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