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Feedback-Based Projected-Gradient Method for Real-Time Optimization of Aggregations of Energy Resources

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  1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  2. IBM Research Ireland
This paper develops an online optimization method to maximize operational objectives of distribution-level distributed energy resources (DERs), while adjusting the aggregate power generated (or consumed) in response to services requested by grid operators. The design of the online algorithm is based on a projected-gradient method, suitably modified to accommodate appropriate measurements from the distribution network and the DERs. By virtue of this approach, the resultant algorithm can cope with inaccuracies in the representation of the AC power flows, it avoids pervasive metering to gather the state of noncontrollable resources, and it naturally lends itself to a distributed implementation. Optimality claims are established in terms of tracking of the solution of a well-posed time-varying convex optimization problem.
Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1455160
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5D00-71749
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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