Review of challenges and research opportunities for voltage control in smart grids

H Sun, Q Guo, J Qi, V Ajjarapu, R Bravo… - … on Power Systems, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review the emerging challenges and research opportunities for voltage
control in smart grids. For transmission grids, the voltage control for accommodating wind …

Innovative approaches for assessing and enhancing the hosting capacity of PV-rich distribution networks: An Australian perspective

A Rajabi, S Elphick, J David, A Pors… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in the deployment of residential PV systems has caused various
concerns for electricity network service providers in accommodating higher amounts of PV …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning for active voltage control on power distribution networks

J Wang, W Xu, Y Gu, W Song… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
This paper presents a problem in power networks that creates an exciting and yet
challenging real-world scenario for application of multi-agent reinforcement learning …

A data-driven multi-agent autonomous voltage control framework using deep reinforcement learning

S Wang, J Duan, D Shi, C Xu, H Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complexity of modern power grids keeps increasing due to the expansion of renewable
energy resources and the requirement of fast demand responses, which results in a great …

Consensus control for coordinating grid-forming and grid-following inverters in microgrids

A Singhal, TL Vu, W Du - IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a 100% inverter-based microgrid, both grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL)
inverters will have a crucial role to play in frequency/voltage regulation and maintaining …

A deep reinforcement learning-based multi-agent framework to enhance power system resilience using shunt resources

M Kamruzzaman, J Duan, D Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing power system resilience enhancement methods, such as proactive generation
rescheduling, movable sources dispatch, and network topology reconfiguration, do not …

Photovoltaic hosting capacity sensitivity to active distribution network management

MSS Abad, J Ma - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing integration of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems in low voltage (LV)
distribution systems may result in technical problems such as over-voltage. Thus, utilities …

Multistage coordination Volt/VAR control with CVR in active distribution network in presence of inverter-based DG units and soft open points

VB Pamshetti, S Singh, AK Thakur… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The conservation voltage reduction (CVR) technique is a well-established technique for
peak demand reduction and energy savings in the presence of voltage-sensitive loads …

Deep reinforcement learning based topology-aware voltage regulation of distribution networks with distributed energy storage

Y Xiang, Y Lu, J Liu - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Both the high penetration of clean energy with strong fluctuation and the complicated
variable operation condition bring great challenges to the voltage regulation of the …

Three-stage hierarchically-coordinated voltage/var control based on PV inverters considering distribution network voltage stability

C Zhang, Y Xu, Y Wang, ZY Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intermittent photovoltaic (PV) power generation brings voltage fluctuation and stability issues
to distribution networks. Meanwhile, PV inverters can support voltage/Var control (VVC) to …