دانلود Reliability Assessment for Smart Grid and Future Power Distribution Systems

Abstract

Smart  grid  incorporates  communication  and  control technologies to provide more efficient and reliable electricity to customers. The infrastructure of such power system will allow the customers to generate and store electricity, and use that in case of an outage  or  disconnection  from  the  utility.  Therefore,  the  outage  of power from the utility side does not necessarily result in loss of electricity. This paper presents a new process for reliability assessment of future power distribution systems affected by the customers’ distributed energy resources (DER). The method to calculate the reliability  indices,  such  as  SAIFI  and  SAIDI,  based on  a  Monte  Carlo simulation  is  explained;  and  results  are  provided  for  case  studies with  residential,  commercial,  and  industrial  customers,  renewable generation, and battery systems.