Proper selection of electric vehicles (EVs) path will be helpful to improving the travel efficiency of EV users and alleviate their difficulties in charging during peak hours. In this context, a personalized fast-charging navigation strategy based on mutual effect of dynamic queuing is proposed. Firstly, an effective charging navigation system is presented to enable the integration of EV information terminals, fast-charging stations (FCSs), intelligent transportation system (ITS), and information processing center (IPC). Next, by incorporating the real-time mutual effect of dynamic queuing as well as considering the priority reservation cost (PRC) of the EV drivers who reserve charging priority before others, a dynamic reservation-waiting queue model is established. After that, on the basis of the above model, the coupling relations of the criterions that may affect the charging experience are investigated for the first time and the charging navigation plans in IPC are optimized for diverse EVs. Finally, the validity of the method is verified by conducting the simulation under the participation of 2250 EVs in the urban areas of a city. Results show that the proposed charging strategy will increase charging satisfaction on average by more than 10.9% in all analyzed cases. Additionally, the navigation can save the charging cost of EV owners while also improve the operation efficiency of FCSs.
In recent years, ultra-low-frequency oscillation (ULFO) is a prominent problem in power systems of dominant hydropower. In order to suppress ULFO, the most effective strategy is the governor parameters optimization to improve the system damping within the ultra-low-frequency band. However, no explicit standard has been established to stipulate the level of system damping for ULFO suppression. In this paper, the key factors that affect the amplitude and damping of ULFO are firstly analyzed. Then, the design principle of the damping control index of ULFO is put forward. According to it, a damping control index is proposed. After that, a case of ULFO in an actual power system proves the rationality of the proposed index. Finally, the application of the index in the Southwest China Power Grid illustrates its effectiveness and feasibility.
The wind power capacity has increased a lot recently and the number of close energy storage systems has also rapidly increased. To enhance the frequency stability support ability of such wind–storage combined systems, this paper proposes a virtual synchronous control strategy for a wind–storage combined system considering the battery state of charge (SOC). The virtual synchronous control is used to make the wind turbine generate more active power when the system is in disturbance. Most importantly, to ensure that the stored energy is used efficiently, the wide-area SOC concept of the energy storage system is considered, which is realized by designing the batteries with additional control that is related to the other batteries’ SOCs. This means that the low-SOC energy storage system’s power shortage can be compensated for by the high-SOC batteries. The above unified control enhances the wind–storage combined system’s frequency supporting ability. According to the simulations, the frequency drop can be suppressed through the help of the virtual synchronous control and the stored energy. Additionally, the instability can also be eliminated when wide-area SOC is considered, such that the proposed efficiency and correctness are finally verified through the simulations.
The wide deployment of phasor measurement units has enabled data-driven transient stability prediction (TSP) of power systems. However, ensuring the reliability of TSP results is still a significant challenge that limits the practical application of data-driven methods. To this end, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based deep ensemble model with optimized class-specific thresholds is proposed to achieve reliable TSP. Specifically, a CNN is utilized as the backbone predictor, where the time-series variables from multiple generators are transformed into image-like inputs, and a CNN-based deep ensemble model is developed to provide accurate confidence estimation for TSP. Subsequently, considering the asymmetric importance of different classes in TSP, a confidence-based class-specific thresholds rule is adopted, and a multi-objective optimization model for determining the class-specific thresholds is formulated. In this optimization model, the reliability requirement of TSP is imposed as a constraint, requiring that true unstable rate (TUR) equal to 100%, with the objectives of minimizing the rejection rate and maximizing the true stable rate (TSR). The Pareto front of the class-specific thresholds can be obtained by solving the optimization model. Test results on two benchmark power systems show that the proposed method achieves a TUR of 100% and a TSR of at least 99% with approximately 10% of the samples rejected, demonstrating its effectiveness and scalability.