Battelle Memorial Institute

Saptarshi Bhattacharya

Wei Du

Kevin P Schneider

Jacob Hansen

Abhishek Somani

Nikitha Radhakrishnan

Bishnu P Bhattarai

Md Jan E Alam

Apparatus and methods are disclosed for restoring operation of a power grid comprising a plurality of reclosers and distributed energy resources (DERs) responsive to abnormal conditions by determining and implementing a reconfiguration for the power grid. The reconfiguration can specify respective new statuses for one or more of the reclosers and/or respective quantities of reactive power to be supplied by one or more of the DERs. The reconfiguration can be determined based on a plurality of constraints using an objective function, the constraints being determined based at least in part on recloser status data and/or DER power generation capability data. Respective cleared quantities of reactive power for the DERs to supply to the reconfigured power grid can be determined via a transactive control scheme, and the reconfiguration can be updated prior to implementation based on the results of the transactive control scheme.

Reconfiguration of power grids during abnormal conditions using reclosers and distributed energy resources

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Richland, WA, United States of America

Saptarshi Bhattacharya