Sometimes it is needed to tune an AVR (automatic voltage regulator) to fulfill specific requirements. Requirements such as rise time, overshoot, and settling time are often used to specify the desired behavior for a given step response of the AVR. Since it is difficult to tune the controller by hand, this post presents an automatized…
Unit commitment (UC) in electric power systems is a (hard-to-solve) mixed-integer non-linear optimization problem. UC aims at scheduling the generation units such that they satisfy the demand at every time instant while minimizing the overall cost (or maximizing the welfare). On top of that, a large number of constraints must be respected, e.g. capability limits…
Load modeling is one of the most important aspects when it comes to the stability analysis of electric power systems. The way we model loads significantly impacts the results of the analyses. The so-called ZIP model considers the voltage dependency of loads and serves this purpose very well. ZIP stands for the three defined load…
In this post, I discuss an energy storage model to analyze the energy arbitrage potential in a day-ahead electricity market. Energy arbitraging takes advantage of the price variations in the market where energy is bought at low prices and sold at high prices, thereby producing a profit. However, the profit depends on several factors, such…
The quick answer is – it depends… Technical cost-benefit analysis of a PV system complemented with energy storage for increased electricity self-sufficiency. Questions In order to properly analyze the costs and benefits of complementing a PV system with a storage system to increase self-sufficiency, several questions need to be answered. In the following, these questions…