Self-Organizing Dynamic Agents for the Operation of Decentralized Smart Grids

In future smart grids, integration of intermittent distributed generation as well as loads such as EV will present challenges regarding stability and power quality. The amount of data to be processed can overwhelm traditional IT, limiting situational awareness and decision support. Decentralized and self-organizing technologies can help with that problem. In self-organization, order is created from local interactions between parts of a system. Agents are units or computer programs that act for users.

Self-Organizing Dynamic Agents for the Operation of Decentralized Smart Grids describes the technology of smart grid sensors interacting by exchanging local information. This can be applied to optimal economic dispatch, voltage control, power quality monitoring, and dynamic loading of power components. The resulting organization is robust against perturbation and able to self-repair. Chapters cover the needs and challenges in smart grids, cooperative and self-organising sensors networks, self-organizing wide area measurement systems, decentralized voltage regulation and economic dispatch of distributed generators, monitoring estimation and control, and dynamic thermal rating assessment of overhead lines.

Written with graduate students, researchers and power system engineers in mind, this book offers a concise but thorough overview of decentralised self-organising units in smart grids.