Advanced Communication and Control for the Prevention of Blackouts (ACCEPT)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract
ACCEPT seeks to bring together a joint UK-India consortium with the skills necessary to address the potential for using Smart Grid technologies to support novel integrated protection and control tools for the prevention of blackouts. These tools would help prevent society from incurring the huge costs and discomfort associated with blackouts and increase confidence in the power system's ability to satisfy the long term needs of society and industry, as the level of uncertainty and risk in the power system increases.
Planned Impact
This multi-disciplinary ACCEPT project aims to provide a vision and strategic direction for the prevention of blackouts and instabilities of future electricity networks.
It is inspired by both, the limitations of current, estimation, operation and control practices, and unprecedented opportunities opened by advanced communication and information technologies to massively improve system dynamic state estimation and integrated protection and control. This would spur new developments and transformation across the ICT-Energy interface by bringing together experts in artificial intelligence, information and communications technologies, control systems, power systems economics and networks specialists.
The proposed research would not only benefit from the input of a wide range of disciplines but it also has the potential to move each of these disciplines forward as scientific breakthroughs are made in the energy context.
It is inspired by both, the limitations of current, estimation, operation and control practices, and unprecedented opportunities opened by advanced communication and information technologies to massively improve system dynamic state estimation and integrated protection and control. This would spur new developments and transformation across the ICT-Energy interface by bringing together experts in artificial intelligence, information and communications technologies, control systems, power systems economics and networks specialists.
The proposed research would not only benefit from the input of a wide range of disciplines but it also has the potential to move each of these disciplines forward as scientific breakthroughs are made in the energy context.
Publications
Alvarado D
(2019)
Transmission Network Investment With Distributed Energy Resources and Distributionally Robust Security
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Ariff M
(2016)
Adaptive Protection and Control in the Power System for Wide-Area Blackout Prevention
in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Ariff M
(2015)
Estimating Dynamic Model Parameters for Adaptive Protection and Control in Power System
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Awadalla M
(2017)
An approach to controlled islanding based on PMU measurements
Azizipanah-Abarghooee R
(2016)
A new inertia emulator and fuzzy-based LFC to support inertial and governor responses using Jaya algorithm
Azizipanah-Abarghooee R
(2016)
Corrective economic dispatch and operational cycles for probabilistic unit commitment with demand response and high wind power
in Applied Energy
Azizipanah-Abarghooee R
(2020)
A Linear Inertial Response Emulation for Variable Speed Wind Turbines
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Azizipanah-Abarghooee R
(2016)
Multiobjective Dynamic Optimal Power Flow Considering Fuzzy-Based Smart Utilization of Mobile Electric Vehicles
in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Azizipanah-Abarghooee R
(2016)
Practical multi-area bi-objective environmental economic dispatch equipped with a hybrid gradient search method and improved Jaya algorithm
in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
Azizipanah-Abarghooee R
(2019)
A New Approach to the Online Estimation of the Loss of Generation Size in Power Systems
in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
| Description | We worked hard in designing new approaches for tracking the power system inertia. Furthermore, we worked on development of next generation of power system state estimators and wide area smart grid control solutions. |
| Exploitation Route | The findings could be directly implemented for improvement of the power system monitoring and operation. Some of findings, e.g. those related to power system inertia have been used in new projects, like Ofgem funded NIC £9.6m Enhanced Frequency Control Capabilities (led by National Grid, UK) project and £7.6m VISOR project. |
| Sectors | Education,Energy |
| Description | Results achieved over last 12 months are published in high impact journals. The collaborative partners from UK and India worked together and created highly valuable results published in high impact international journals. Our collaboration is still ongoing and we look forward to publishing more results in future. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Education,Energy |
| Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | ETIP SNET - GRID PLANNING COORDINATION ACROSS SYSTEM OPERATORS |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Electricity Engineering Standards Review Independent Panel Terms of Reference |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | UK industrial strategy has articulated a grand challenge of clean growth: realising our decarbonisation objectives, including electrification of transport sector and maintaining reliable, secure and resilient electricity supplies at minimum cost. A key part of this is delivering an efficient electricity network within a whole electricity system, which maintains high levels of reliability and security of supply in Great Britain at least cost to consumers. In order to unlock benefits, BEIS and Ofgem launched an independent review of electricity system standards. The objective of the review is to consider how the planning and, where appropriate, operational and investment engineering standards should be updated in the face of our changing electricity system, whilst maintaining security of supply to consumers |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8199... |
| Description | Provided training to engineers from TNB Malaysia |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The engineers have advanced themselves through further knowledge of the field |
| URL | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/b.pal |
| Description | Training to Engineers from Power Industry in Chile |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The engineers from grid operator in Chile have now much advanced knowledge about power system and wind energy modelling |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bikash-pal-0ba3a413/ |
| Description | Enhance Frequency Control Capabilities - EFCC |
| Organisation | National Grid UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | A new co-ordinated fast frequency control in low inertia electrical power systems. Testing of a new monitoring and control scheme, manufactured by GE, using Real-Time Digital Simulator, RTDS. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assessment of the role of demand, PV, batteries and CCGT to frequency control. |
| Impact | New RTDS related research achievements. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | MIGRATE Horizon2020 Project |
| Organisation | Scottish Power Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Modelling and simulation of inverter connected loads. Real-time monitoring of power system inertia and power system fault level. Development of an RTDS model for testing of protective devices and their operation in power systems with reduced inertia. Proposal of novel System Integrity Protection Schemes (SIPS) for future power systems with reduced system inertia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of real-data. Contribution to real-time monitoring of system inertia and fault level. |
| Impact | This was a multi-disciplinary collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | VISOR |
| Organisation | Scottish Power Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of methods for optimal placement of Phasor Measurement Units and new approaches for Hybrid State estimation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Particular contributions are expressed in developing new Hybrid State estimators |
| Impact | New journal papers and tools for supporting design of future Wide Area Monitoring, Protection and Control systems |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Invited speaker, Supergen Hubnet workshop on risk modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | About 30 international academics attended this workshop at University College Dublin. Chris Dent outlined the research needs for smart grids, raising awareness of EPSRC research outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Participate in ETP on Smart grids - General Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave Keynote speech on "The need for a fundamental review of electricity networks reliability standards" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Participate in International Centre for Mathematical Science Energy Management: Flexibility, Risk and Optimisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave Talk on "Quantifying the benefits of flexibility in future lower carbon energy system" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Participate in Workshop on Mathematics and Economics of Energy Markets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on "Paradigm shift to low carbon energy future: Challenges for Economists and Mathematicians" and inform the debate in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Renewable, Flexible and Resilient Energy Grids |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The central theme of this conference was to discuss how to obtain the right mix between flexibility and robustness necessary to operate energy systems with greater presence of renewable generation in a reliable and resilient way, considering several sources of uncertainty in the short and long term. The focus was on latest advances in the use of innovative forms of operation and in the design of electrical systems (including new technologies such as storage and demand control), market instruments and appropriate policies for this new context. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.cesworkshop.cl/18/es/inicio |
| Description | Workshop on nexus of smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Setting research agenda for future intelligent manufacturing and transportation systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | keynote speech at Energetika 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note speech at the conference talking about challenges and solutions to control of future power networks with RES and storage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | keynote speech at IEEE MELECON 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note speech at the conference talking about challenges and solutions to control of future power networks with RES and storage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | keynote speech at IET/IEEE Medpower 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note speech at the conference talking about challenges and solutions to control of future power networks with RES and storage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |