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Title: Incentive-Based Voltage Regulation in Distribution Networks: Preprint

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This paper considers distribution networks fea- turing distributed energy resources, and designs incentive-based mechanisms that allow the network operator and end-customers to pursue given operational and economic objectives, while concurrently ensuring that voltages are within prescribed limits. Two different network-customer coordination mechanisms that require different amounts of information shared between the network operator and end-customers are developed to identify a solution of a well-defined social-welfare maximization prob- lem. Notably, the signals broadcast by the network operator assume the connotation of prices/incentives that induce the end- customers to adjust the generated/consumed powers in order to avoid the violation of the voltage constraints. Stability of the proposed schemes is analytically established and numerically corroborated.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), NREL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1349797
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5D00-67884
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at the 2017 American Control Conference, 24-26 May 2017, Seattle, Washington
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English