Publications related to SuperSmart Grid

On Energy Control of Modular Multilevel Converters

Owing to the advancements in the area of power electronics, efficient and flexible ac to dc conversion is made possible, bringing back into focus the idea of the dc power transmission at various voltage levels. Several technical and economical factors advo ...

EPFL2023

On the role of energy infrastructure in the energy transition. Case study of an energy independent and CO2 neutral energy system for Switzerland

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Manuele Domenico Margni

The transition towards renewable energy is leading to an important strain on the energy grids. The question of designing and deploying renewable energy technologies in symbiosis with existing grids and infrastructure is arising. While current energy system ...

2023

Security Measures for Grids Against Rank-1 Undetectable Time-Synchronization Attacks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Marguerite Marie Nathalie Delcourt

Time-synchronization attacks on phasor measurement units (PMUs) pose a real threat to smart grids; it was shown that they are feasible in practice and that they can have a nonnegligible negative impact on state estimation, without triggering the bad data d ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

How Smart is the Grid?

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Ermanno Lo Cascio, Zhichuan Ma

Ancient Romans called urbs the set of buildings and infrastructures, and civitas the Roman citizens. Today instead, while the society is surfing the digital tsunami, urbs and civitas tend to become much closer, almost merging, that we might attempt to cond ...

2021

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

Online Battery Storage Management via Lyapunov Optimization in Active Distribution Grids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Cong Wang, Eleni Stai

We consider low run-time complexity power management in distribution grids with renewable energy sources (RESs) and batteries, where forecasts are unavailable. We propose iterative Lyapunov Real-time Control (iLypRC), a fast online algorithm, which does no ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Characterization of Real-World Power System Signals in Non-Stationary Conditions using a Dictionary Approach

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo, Alexandra Cameron Karpilow

As power grids transition towards low-inertia net-works based on converter-interfaced renewable energy resources, they become increasingly vulnerable to extreme dynamics. Currently, the most advanced methods for signal processing in power systems are embed ...

IEEE2021

Real-Time Control of an Electric Vehicle Charging Station While Tracking an Aggregated Power Setpoint

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Cong Wang, Roman Rudnik, Jagdish Prasad Achara

We consider the problem of controlling the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) connected to a single charging station that follows an aggregated power setpoint from a main controller of the local distribution grid. To cope with volatile resources such as l ...

2020

Status of the European Union Project FASTGRID

Bertrand Dutoit, Frédéric Sirois, Bertrand Dutoit, Mathias Noe

High voltage direct current super-grids are one attractive solution for the transmission of bulk power of renewable electricity over long distances. Their protection is still an issue and superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCL) offer attractive pers ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Aspects of the energy transition and their effects on power systems

Laurent Vincent Pagnier

Most European countries are committed to an energy transition which consists in the substitution of conventional CO2 emitting energy sources by new renewable energy sources (RES), in particular wind and solar power. As opposed to conventional energy source ...

EPFL2019

Model-based predictive control methods for distributed energy resources in smart grids

Luca Fabietti

This thesis develops optimization-based techniques for the control of distributed energy resources to provide multiple services to the power network. It is divided into three parts. The first part of this thesis focuses on the development of a framework f ...

EPFL2019

Multiport Energy Gateway

Yan-Kim Tran

The global problem of energy supply and the reduction of the carbon footprint can only be solved by a massive replacement of fossil fuels or atomic energy by renewable resources. As the latter are mostly weather-dependent, they are uncontrollable and unpre ...

EPFL2019

Inertia location and slow network modes determine disturbance propagation in large-scale power grids

Philippe René Joseph Jacquod, Laurent Vincent Pagnier

Conventional generators in power grids are steadily substituted with new renewable sources of electric power. The latter are connected to the grid via inverters and as such have little, if any rotational inertia. The resulting reduction of total inertia ra ...

2019

Experimental and numerical investigations of a high-head pumped-storage power plant at speed no-load

François Avellan, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Vlad Hasmatuchi, Cécile Münch-Alligné

Due to the increasing integration of new renewable energies, the electrical grid undergoes more frequent instabilities. Hydroelectric power plants, particularly pumped storage plants, are well suited for grid control. However, this objective requires exten ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

SCCER-FURIES - Design of Sizes for Buildings Energy Systems as a Function of the Grid Evolution - Deliverable 1.4.1a

Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Jordan Holweger, Luise Middelhauve, Hervé Tommasi

The increasing use of renewable energy is a deep going trend mainly supported by the sustained annual growth rate of solar photovoltaic, wind power and biogases. The expansion and evolution of the distribution grids is therefore a key issue to ensure a sec ...

2018

Medium Voltage Impedance-Admittance Measurement System Based on the Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Converter

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Marko Petkovic, Nicolai Hildebrandt

Recent trends in power system design such as an increasing share of renewable energy sources and smart grids are creating different subsystem interactions that require proper investigation, understanding, describing and estimating global system stability t ...

2018

Stable and Passive High-Power Dual Active Bridge Converters Interfacing MVDC Grids

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Enrique Rodriguez Diaz

Dual active bridge (DAB) is a topology that is receiving more and more attention as a potential solution to interface dc grids of different voltage levels. From a system level, the implications of DABs on the stability of complex power systems are addresse ...

2018

Coordinated Optimization and Control for Smart Grids

Altug Bitlislioglu

In this thesis, we consider commercial buildings with available heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and develop methods to assess and exploit their energy storage and production potential to collectively offer ancillary services to th ...

EPFL2018

Fluid-structure interaction mechanisms leading to dangerous power swings in Francis turbines at full load

François Avellan, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Christian Landry

Hydropower plants play an important regulatory role in the large scale integration of volatile renewable energy sources into the existing power grid. This duty however requires a continuous extension of their operating range, provoking the emergence of com ...

Elsevier2017

A multi-agent based analytical approach for service restoration in distribution networks

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Hossein Sekhavatmanesh

With the advent of smart grids and the higher level of requirement for the quality of supply, restoration of distribution networks is a timely topic that deserves to be revisited. In this paper, the concept of multi-agent automation in smart grids is appli ...

IEEE2017