TY - GEN
T1 - Optimization-based residential load scheduling to improve reliability in the distribution grid
AU - Habib, Abdulelah H.
AU - Ratnam, Elizabeth L.
AU - Disfani, Vahid R.
AU - Kleissl, Jan
AU - De Callafon, Raymond A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/12/27
Y1 - 2016/12/27
N2 - Despite the recent rapid adoption of rooftop solar PV for residential customers, islanded operation during grid outages remains elusive for most PV owners. In this paper we consider approaches to improve the reliability of electricity supply in the context of a residential microgrid, consisting of a group of residential customers each with rooftop solar PV, that are connected to the distribution network via a single point of common coupling. It is assumed that there is insufficient PV generation at all times to meet the electricity demand within the residential microgrid. Three optimization-based algorithms are proposed to improve the reliability of electricity supply to each residential customer, despite variability and intermittency of the solar resource and periods of infrequent and sustained power outages in the electricity grid. By means of a case study we show that the majority of residential customers achieve greater reliability of uninterrupted electricity supply when connecting to the residential microgrid in comparison to operating in isolated self-consumption mode.
AB - Despite the recent rapid adoption of rooftop solar PV for residential customers, islanded operation during grid outages remains elusive for most PV owners. In this paper we consider approaches to improve the reliability of electricity supply in the context of a residential microgrid, consisting of a group of residential customers each with rooftop solar PV, that are connected to the distribution network via a single point of common coupling. It is assumed that there is insufficient PV generation at all times to meet the electricity demand within the residential microgrid. Three optimization-based algorithms are proposed to improve the reliability of electricity supply to each residential customer, despite variability and intermittency of the solar resource and periods of infrequent and sustained power outages in the electricity grid. By means of a case study we show that the majority of residential customers achieve greater reliability of uninterrupted electricity supply when connecting to the residential microgrid in comparison to operating in isolated self-consumption mode.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010781801&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CDC.2016.7798624
DO - 10.1109/CDC.2016.7798624
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85010781801
T3 - 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016
SP - 2419
EP - 2424
BT - 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016
Y2 - 12 December 2016 through 14 December 2016
ER -