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Artificial Intelligence for Control Applications in Power and Energy Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 May 2023) | Viewed by 1399

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Dear Colleagues,

Power and energy systems are evolving with increasing Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to ensure the demand–supply balance and cope with more volatile profiles due to renewable-based generation and new electricity usages. Typical control strategies of DERs consist in optimal decision-making processes that target technical, economical, and/or environmental criteria. Widely adopted solutions involve predictive approaches with look-ahead optimization of DERs setpoints based on systems models, which may suffer from i) vulnerability to uncertainties (i.e. forecast errors, model accuracy, and unknown system parameters) and ii) communication network and privacy concerns (especially for cloud applications). Compact controllers based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven approaches can therefore be considered to mitigate the aforementioned shortcomings with faster computation at the local DERs level. This would entail taking advantage of the system expertise (i.e. models) in an offline training phase before deploying the controllers online.

For this Special Issue, original research articles investigating AI-based controllers for applications in power and energy systems are welcome. Considered techniques may include (but are not limited to): machine learning and supervised and reinforcement algorithms, as well as data mining/analysis (e.g. decisions tree, clustering, and regression). Specific attention will be paid to the comparison of methods with conventional approaches. The analysis of the their performances can include an evaluation of their robustness to uncertainties and/or system parameters drifting, as well as the fulfilment of critical constraints. Articles may cover applications including (but not limited to) the following:

  • Energy management strategies (bulding and district).
  • Distribution grid management fonctions (e.g. voltage regulation).
  • Multi energy systems management.
  • Energy communities.
  • Energy demand management, storage, electrical vehicles, and distribution.

Dr. Rémy Rigo-Mariani
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Keywords

  • artificial intelligence
  • supervised learning
  • reinforcement learning
  • energy efficiency
  • power system control and optimization
  • distributed energy resources and smart grids
  • energy storage
  • electrical vehicles

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A Method for Fault Section Identification of Distribution Networks Based on Validation of Fault Indicators Using Artificial Neural Network
by Myong-Soo Kim, Jae-Guk An, Yun-Sik Oh, Seong-Il Lim, Dong-Hee Kwak and Jin-Uk Song
Energies 2023, 16(14), 5397; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16145397 - 15 Jul 2023
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A fault section in Korean distribution networks is generally determined as a section between a switch with a fault indicator (FI) and a switch without an FI. However, the existing method cannot be applied to distribution networks with distributed generations (DGs) due to [...] Read more.
A fault section in Korean distribution networks is generally determined as a section between a switch with a fault indicator (FI) and a switch without an FI. However, the existing method cannot be applied to distribution networks with distributed generations (DGs) due to false FIs that are generated by fault currents flowing from the load side of a fault location. To identify the false FIs and make the existing method applicable, this paper proposes a method to determine the fault section by utilizing an artificial neural network (ANN) model for validating FIs, which is difficult to determine using mathematical equations. The proposed ANN model is built by training the relationship between the measured A, B, C, and N phase fault currents acquired by numerous simulations on a sample distribution system, and guarantees 100% FI validations for the test data. The proposed method can accurately distinguish genuine and false Fis by utilizing the ability of the ANN model, thereby enabling the conventional FI-based method to be applied to DG-connected distribution networks without any changes to the equipment and communication infrastructure. To verify the performance of the proposed method, various case studies considering real fault conditions are conducted under a Korean distribution network using MATLAB. Full article
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