Abstract
Grid resilience has become a critical topic recently because of the increasing occurrence of extreme events and the growing integration of intermittent renewable energy sources. To build a resilient distribution system, this paper develops a multiagent reinforcement learning-based (MARL) method to coordinate distribution energy resources (DERs) dispatch, load pickup, and network reconfiguration for load restoration after a system outage. With the help of two types of control agents, namely critical load restoration (CLR) and coordination (COR) agents, system loads can be restored efficiently, given available resources. The effectiveness and superiority of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated through simulations and comparative studies on a real distribution feeder in Western Colorado.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
See NREL/CP-5D00-84636 for preprintNREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5D00-88291
Keywords
- distribution system
- grid resilience
- load restoration
- multi-agent reinforcement learning