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Abstract—This paper presents a mathematical model for active information and stores in database. As the communication
distribution network load shedding considering the number of may be wireless with interference, data packet loss will
blackouts and power shortage based on detailed classification happen during the process of information gathering. So the
of load after power failure. By establishing the output model of data may not be complete before failure takes place and its
fan energy storage and adopting gray model to forecast wind impacts need to be considered [4]. In terms of algorithms,
speed and load, the genetic algorithm is used to solve optimal Genetic Algorithm (GA), as one of the most practical
load shedding scheme considering the influence of distributed modern intelligent algorithms, is well applied in solving
energy. The simulation results show that the gray model has complex problems with large constraints and scales [5].
better accuracy and the load calculation algorithm is more
This paper presents a mathematical model of active
efficient, which satisfies real-time engineering requirements.
distribution network load shedding considering number of
Load shedding scheme become more reasonable by taking
indicators like load priority, power shortage and outage blackouts and power shortage based on the detailed
frequency into account, and the weight coefficient in load classification of the load after power failure. It adopts gray
shedding objective function can be adjusted to satisfy actual model to forecast wind speed and load to determine whether
needs. the remaining power supply during fault satisfies the
demand. On the other hand, genetic algorithm will be used
Keywords-active distribution network; gray model; genetic to solve the optimal load shedding scheme if the remaining
algorithm; load shedding; distributed energy power supply is not satisfied. The results show that the
proposed method has high efficiency, strong convergence
I. INTRODUCTION and good searching ability, which satisfies real-time
requirements.
Active Distribution Network (ADN) provides an
excellent and flexible access platform for Distributed II. MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Energy Resource (DER), which enables real-time
monitoring and control of distribution network to realize A. Load Classification
economical, efficient and reliable operation. DER includes When the active distribution network failure occurs, the
Distributed Generation (DG), Electrical Energy Storage distribution automation system will immediately locate and
(EES), Controllable Load (CL) [1] and etc., By controlling isolate the fault, transferring fault affected load to non-fault
DER, breakers, transformers and other equipments after areas. When the remaining power supply cannot meet load
network components failure, DMS (Distribution demands, the appropriate shedding scheme will be carried
Management System) helps distribution network to run out under operating constraints, achieving safe transition to
reasonably and economically in the duration of failure. normal state. The fault load can be divided into two
Active distribution network aims to make full use of categories based on the analysis above: instantaneous fault
existing resources to achieve a more reasonable operation load and short-term fault load.
statues before the restoration of faulty equipments. The instantaneous power failure mainly refers to the
At present, certain studies on active load shedding has power failure due to protection action, and power supply is
been carried out [2]. However, there are few studies restored through load transfer in several minutes. Its failure
considering the classification of fault loads, which leads to duration depends on fault location and switch operating
incomplete factors of load shedding objective function. indicator. This type of load mainly affects the frequency
Only power shortage is considered, regardless of outage indicator, when calculating system reliability, which has
frequency indicators. The implementation of Distribution little influence on fault duration indicator and power
Automation (DA) has greatly reduced troubleshooting time shortage indicator.
and fault area, which greatly helps to restore distribution Short-term power outage mainly refers to the protection
network within a very short period of time usually 1-2h [3]. and it cannot be restored by load transferring. Or the
Meanwhile, Distribution Management System (DMS) remaining power supply cannot meet all load demand after
continuously records distribution network operational failure, due to power outage protection operating priority,
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V ¨a¸ ( BT B)1 BT Y °
¨u ¸ PWTs ® PN vr v d vout (7)
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5) Replace the gray parameter with time function
In the formula above, A , B and C can be obtained by
(1) u u fitting historical data of wind speed and wind turbine group
x( k 1) (1)
( x(1) )e ak output. PWTs for actual power output of wind turbine group.
a a
vin , vr , vout and v for cut-in wind speed, rated wind speed,
When k 1, 2,}ˈn -1 , the fitting value is acquired cut-out wind speed and actual wind speed respectively. PN
(1)
from the formula above. When k t n , x ( k 1) is predictive for rated power of wind turbine group.
Energy storage system is able to calm wind turbine
value.
power fluctuations, together with the combination of
6) Commencing cumulative reduction process on distributed power generations, it can be used as a stable
(1)
x ( k 1) to get: power supplier as common battery currently. State of charge
(SOC) is a vital state variables for battery, which reflects the
proportion of remaining capacity of battery regarding total
x((0)
k 1) (ax(1)
(0)
u)e ak capacity. When the value is greater than the upper limit, the
battery will stop charging. And when the value is less than
7) Calculating the difference H ((0) (0)
k ) between x( k ) and the lower limit, it will stop discharging. The mathematical
(0) model is shown below:
x ( k ) , together with relative error e(k ) .
P EES
(0) SOCt 1 SOCt t EES (8)
H ((0)
k) k ) x( k )
x((0) E
e(k ) H ((0) (0)
k ) x( k ) In the formula above, SOCt for the charge state of
8) Diagnosing and forecasting application model. In battery in t duration. Pt EES for charge and discharge power
order to analyze the reliability and effectiveness of the of battery in t duration, as positive for discharging and
model, it must be diagnosed, as calculating the observed negative for charging. E EES (kWh) for rated capacity for
data variance and its residual variance: battery.
1 n (0)
¦[ x(k ) x]2
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nk 1 III. MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR LOAD SHEDDING BASED
1 n ON GENETIC ALGORITHM
s22 ¦[H (k ) H ]2
nk 1 A. Genetic Algorithm
1 n (0) 1 n
In the formula above, x ¦
nk 1
x( k ) , H ¦ H (k ) . After
nk 1
Genetic Algorithm (GA) is designed to search the
optimal solution by simulating natural evolutionary process,
that, calculating and verifying C and small error probability which has better computational efficiency in solving 0-1
P as: constraint programming problem than other algorithms.
C s2 s1 The chromosome length is equal to the number of load
in shedding candidate set Ncandidate . By using binary
P P{ H (k ) H 0.6745s1} encoding, the ith load is shed if its value is 1 and the ith load
Commencing model diagnosing according to the is not shed if its value is 0.
calculated and verified C with Table I. The number of bits of crossover and mutation varies
with Ncandidate at equal ratio. The genetic algorithm fitness
TABLE I. GRAY MODEL ACCURACY LEVEL function is defined as (9) and the remaining parameters are
Accuracy Level shown in Table II.
Classification 1
Excellent Regular Inadequate Unqualified Fitness( x) (9)
P >0.95 >0.8 >0.7 ≤0.7 Funload ( x) M a
C <0.35 <0.5 <0.65 ≥0.65 In the formula above, M for larger positive numbers,
M a for limited constraint penalties, when the
D. Wind Turbine and Energy Storage Model corresponding load shedding scheme of the chromosome
The output of fan group is related to wind speed, which satisfies the constraint condition (3) - (6), a 0 , otherwise
is shown as below: a 1.
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TABLE II. GENETIC ALGORITHM PARAMETERS model with the load and wind speed data before failure as
Parameter Value mentioned in Chapter II.C.
Choosing Roulette
3) Determining whether the remaining power supply
meets all the load demands in shedding candidates. If it is
Crossover rate Adaptive
satisfied, shedding will not be necessary and all loads in
Mutation rate Adaptive shedding candidates will be restored. Otherwise, it is not
Elite choice Yes necessary to cut the load and restore of the load set.
Population size 20 Otherwise, go to step 4.
Maximum number of iterations 40 4) Genetic algorithm initialization. Initializing the
population by setting N=1.
B. Algorithm Flow 5) Calculating the fitness value according to equation (9)
When a component failure occurs in active distribution for each individual in the population and sorting the fitness
network after, in terms of heavy load, GA-based load value from large to small, then start choosing, crossing and
shedding algorithm will be proposed as follows: mutating.
1) Recognizing the type of fault and estimating its 6) Determining whether the genetic algorithm
processing time. The algorithm will determine the convergent or not. If it is convergent, then continue to step
irreducible load set and load shedding candidate set by 7), otherwise, report to step 5).
locating and isolating the fault immediately. 7) Decoding chromosomes into specific load shedding
2) Calculating predicted wind speed, fan output and schemes by choosing optimal individual. Shedding the
load value during fault processing time based on the gray corresponding load and restoring the other load in shedding
candidates.
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Figure 3. Gray Model Prediction
B. Simulation Results
For example, a failure occurs on node 4 at 13:00 causing
power cut on load node 2, 9, 12 and feeder F2 with bus
repair time of 2 hours. At this point, all the load belongs to
shedding candidate set and the total number is 12. The gray
model is used to predict wind speed and load data for the
next 2 hours, as shown in Table 4 and Fig. 3.
Figure 4. Algorithm convergence character
TABLE IV. GM(1,1) MODEL PREDICTION ERROR ANALYSIS
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