Enhanced Security-Constrained OPF With Distributed Battery Energy Storage

Enhanced Security-Constrained OPF With Distributed Battery Energy Storage

Discusses how fast-response distributed battery energy storage could be used to implement post-contin-gency corrective control actions. Immediately after a contingency, the injections of istributed batteries could be adjusted to alleviate overloads and reduce fl ows below their short-term emergency rating. This ensures that the post-contingency system remains stable until the operator has redis patched the generation. Imple-menting this form of corrective control would allow operators to take advantage of the difference between the short- and long-term ratings of the lines and would therefore increase the available transmission capacity. This problem is formulated as a two-stage, enhanced security-co nstrained OPF problem, in which the fi rst-stage optimizes the pre-conti ngency generation dispatch, while the second-stage minimizes the corrective actions for each contingency. Case studies based on a six-bus test system and on the RTS 96 demonstrate that the proposed method provides effective corrective actions and can guarantee operational reliability and economy.