Outage Forecast-Based Preventative Scheduling Model for Distribution System Resilience Enhancement

Weijia Liu, Yiyun Yao, Rishabh Jain, Santhosh Madasthu, Badrul Chowdhury, Robert Cox

Research output: NRELPresentation

Abstract

Distribution system resilience enhancement is an important topic to ensure customers have access to power supply during extreme events. In fact, certain weather-related extreme events can be predicted ahead of time. Therefore, it is important to investigate how to predict grid outages using extreme weather forecasts, and how outage predictions can be incorporated into distribution system resilience enhancement. In this paper, a preventative scheduling model for distribution systems is proposed. The model targets at allocating resources, especially mobile responsive resources such as mobile backup generators and mobile energy storage systems, to prepare for an extreme event in the day-ahead context. To achieve efficient resource allocation and scheduling, a machine learning-based outage prediction module is developed to predict vulnerable or risky segments of the distribution system based on historical operating records and extreme weather event forecast. By integrating the outage prediction results into the scheduling model, optimal resource allocation can be derived to help distribution systems prepare for an upcoming event and improve resilience performance. A real distribution feeder in North Carolina, U.S. is used in the case study to validate the proposed approach.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2023

Publication series

NamePresented at the 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 16-20 July 2023, Orlando, Florida

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PR-5D00-86717

Keywords

  • distributed energy resources
  • forecast-based preventative scheduling
  • machine learning
  • outage prediction
  • power system resilience

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