Nikita Tomin

Nikita Tomin
Melentiev Energy Systems Institute · Electric Power Systems

PhD

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Rapid urbanization, increasing electrification, the integration of renewable energy resources, and the potential shift towards electric vehicles create new challenges for the planning and control of energy systems in smart cities. Energy storage resources can help better align peaks of renewable energy generation with peaks of electricity consumpti...
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The data for an energy management system (EMS) in an integrated energy system (IES) is obtained through state estimation. This is then the basis for optimal scheduling, protection and control. At present, the dynamic models of gas and heat networks are rarely considered in such state estimation, and the method lacks robustness. This paper develops...
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The paper is concerned with the development of a methodology for estimating the amount of balancing power in a system with a high penetration of renewable energy sources. To this end, it is crucial to analyze the influence of growing installed capacity of wind farms on the value of the balancing power of the energy system and random characteristics...
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The aggregation of end-users who produce, consume, and exchange surplus energy within the borders of a shared geographical area manifests a new way of using renewable energy as represented by Energy Communities (EC). At that, both industrial and "residential" community microgrids can be such consumers, which act as a single controlled object in rel...
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In order to increase the regime reliability of energy systems, the experience of applying machine learning algorithms and models for various issues of operative-dispatching and counter-accident management was reviewed. It is indicated that an effective solution to this problem is the use of machine learning algorithms and models that are able to le...
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This article is devoted to the development of a methodology for estimating the amount of balancing power in a system with a large share of renewable energy sources (RES). For this purpose, an analysis was made of the influence of an increase in the installed capacity of wind power plants (WPPs) on the value of the balance power of the energy system...
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The paper examines ways to form energy communities, analyzes various management structures for such communities, assesses and identifies possible threats and vulnerabilities of information systems (IS), possible failures and failures in IS during cyberattacks, which can lead to errors in the formation of control actions. An approach to reducing the...
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The example of the operation of the intelligent network with the involvement of wind turbines is considered. The operation of reactive power measurement tools based on the Flexible Alternative Current Transmission System technology is analyzed
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With the increasing scale of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs), the optimization scheduling of the regional integrated energy system (RIES) is facing new challenges due to the integration of EVs and new energy into the system. To realize the low-carbon economic operation of the RIES, a bi-level optimization scheduling strategy for low-ca...
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The virtual power plant (VPP) breaks the geographical restrictions of environment and resource types by virtue of aggregating the distributed energy resources and dispatchable loads. In view of the impact of large-scale energy consumption by users on the operational safety of VPP, based on the existing demand response (DR) researches, this paper ad...
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The energy communities based on the integration of microgrids make it possible to gain economic, environmental, technical, and social benefits. The paper aims to propose a unified multi-criteria approach covering both the planning stage and the stage of managing the energy community, in the context of various interests of its participants. Planning...
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The purpose of the study is to systematize the narratives found in the stories about the updates and myrrh-streaming icons in the XIX – early XX century. In the article, mainly based on the materials of various archives (RSHA, SARF, CHAM, NHAB), the characteristic features of fairly new types of miracles for the Russian Empire are considered. The s...
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The paper proposes methods and algorithms for optimal tuning of power system stabilizers (PSS). The methods are based on the representation of the power system in the form of a graph and the construction for the graph of the power system of an equivalent multi-connected system of automatic control of modes of electromechanical oscillations. The nod...
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Inter-area oscillations in large power network are poorly controlled via local decentralized control. One promising strategy for wide-area damping of these oscillations is to minimize the quadratic state and control cost function for a linearized system model. In this paper, we improve this linear-quadratic method by introducing novel selective app...
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The increase in the use of converter-interfaced generators (CIGs) in today’s electrical grids will require these generators both to supply power and participate in voltage control and provision of grid stability. At the same time, new possibilities of secondary QU droop control in power grids with a large proportion of CIGs (PV panels, wind generat...
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Energy communities is a new, but already successful prosumer model of the local energy systems' construction. It is based on distributed energy sources and the electricity consumers’ flexibility who are the members of the community. In search of the most effective ways to interact within themselves and with the external energy system, local energy...
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With increasing wind penetration, the stability of the power system decreases due to fluctuations in the generated power of wind farms. Distributed siting of wind farms reduces fluctuations in power generation. A method of distributed siting of wind farms based on a genetic algorithm is proposed. The optimization problem uses the target function -...
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The problem of the influence of power fluctuations of wind farms due to the variability of the wind speed on the electric power system is considered. With high wind energy penetration, an increase in the operating reserve in electric power systems is required to cover possible sudden power fluctuations. One of the ways to reduce the stochastic natu...
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The purpose of the study is to reveal the influence of articles about the spontaneous renewal of icons and church domes on the formation of the concept of a miracle among the population of Ukraine on the basis of publications in the Ukrainian press of the early 20s of the XX century. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the...
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This chapter gives the brief introduction to the management of energy in smart grids focusing on the hybrid renewable energy systems, load and generation forecasting, new grids structure, and smart technologies. The classification of smart infrastructure systems and smart energy management systems is provided and discussed with focus on both demand...
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The importance of efficient utilization of biomass as renewable energy in terms of global warming and resource shortages are well known and documented. Biomass gasification is a promising power technology especially for decentralized energy systems. Decisive progress has been made in the gasification technologies development during the last decade....
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Energy storage systems will play a key role in the power system of the twenty first century considering the large penetrations of variable renewable energy, growth in transport electrification and decentralisation of heating loads. Therefore reliable real time methods to optimise energy storage, demand response and generation are vital for power sy...
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Tourism development in ecologically vulnerable areas like the lake Baikal region in Eastern Siberia is a challenging problem. To this end, the dynamical models of AC/DC hybrid isolated power system consisting of four power grids with renewable generation units and energy storage systems are proposed using the advanced methods based on deep reinforc...
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Tourism development in ecologically vulnerable areas like the lake Baikal region in Eastern Siberia is a challenging problem. To this end, the dynamical models of AC/DC hybrid isolated power system consisting of four power grids with renewable generation units and energy storage systems are proposed using the advanced methods based on deep reinforc...
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The paper proposes a concept of building a digital twin based on the reinforcement learning method. This concept allows implementing an accurate digital model of an electrical network with bidirectional automatic data exchange, used for modeling, optimization, and control. The core of such a model is an agent (potential digital twin). The agent, wh...
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The article deals with the problem of the negative impact of wind farms stochastic generation on power grid. One of the ways to reduce the stochasticity of the wind farms generation is their geographically distributed siting. A technique for sizing and distributed siting of wind farms from the standpoint of the influence on the variability of the t...
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Modern Energy Power Systems (EPS) are characterized by a rather high share of distributed generation, renewable energy sources (RES) and energy storage systems (ESS) operating under the control of smart devices. For transition to a qualitatively new level of power industry management, the developed countries create Smart Grids. An effect of sudden...
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In the paper, we formulate the problem of charging electric vehicles with a time-dependent energy source as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), with states defining the presence of cars, their individual levels of charge as well as the level of available renewable energy and storage devices. We exploit MDPs-based online algorithms such as Monte-Carlo...
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Modern power systems are far from immune from voltage collapse, and examples abound over the past decade. This is due to the fact the current generation of automatic emergency and operational Volt/VAr control systems can be ineffective and unreliable for some cases. The artificial intelligence (AI) techniques allow developing new automatic intellig...
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Energy storage systems will play a key role in the power system of the twenty first century considering the large penetrations of variable renewable energy, growth in transport electrification and decentralisation of heating loads. Therefore reliable real time methods to optimise energy storage, demand response and generation are vital for power sy...
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The problem of optimally activating the flexible energy sources (short- and long-term storage capacities) of electricity microgrid is formulated as a sequential decision making problem under uncertainty where, at every time-step, the uncertainty comes from the lack of knowledge about future electricity consumption and weather dependent PV productio...
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The state of the art of transient stability and steady-state (small signal) stability in power grids are reviewed. Transient stability concepts are illustrated with simple examples; in particular, we consider two machine learning-based methods for computing region of attraction: ROA produced by Neural Network Lyapunov Function; estimation of the RO...
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In modern power systems, a variety of both objects and the tools of control is expected to be much larger than before. As a result, the dynamic properties of these systems are complicated, and the issues of maintaining stability come to the fore. The paper provides a brief overview of the types of stability, including those that, until recently, we...
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The paper proposes method and algorithm for obtaining the maximum transmitted power limit in the power system under the voltage stability conditions in case of emergency outages of its elements - power lines and generating sets. The method is based on the analysis of the exaggerated states of the system created by increasing the values of the power...
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We propose a suite of intelligent tools based on the integration of methods of agent modeling and machine learning for the improvement of protection systems and emergency automatics. We propose an online approach to the assessment and management of dynamic security of electric power systems (EPS) with the use of a streaming modification of the rand...
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Year by year control of normal and emergency conditions of up-to-date power systems becomes an increasingly complicated problem. With the increasing complexity the existing control system of power system conditions which includes operative actions of the dispatcher and work of special automatic devices proves to be insufficiently effective more and...
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Voltage instability is among the main factors causing large-scale blackouts. One of the major objectives of the Control centers is a prompt assessment of voltage stability and possibly self-healing control of electric power systems. The standing alone solutions based on classical approximation methods are known to be redundant and suffer with limit...
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The paper proposes to simulate a random variability of the nonlinear load in the form of probabilistic characteristics of the amplitudes of harmonic components of powers. The influence of the variability of distribution of amplitude values of the power harmonics on the load flow in the network, power losses and maximum power transmission in lines i...
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Volt-VAr control systems provide the optimal solution with remote automatic or manual control of the capacitor banks and tap positions on the voltage regulators. However, such control possesses inherent characteristics of complexity, nonlinearity, inaccuracy and high requirement for control speed, parts of which are hard to be described by the trad...
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Forecasting of electric load (EL) is an important task for both electric power entities and large consumers of electricity [1]. Large consumers are faced with the need to compose applications for the planned volume of EL, and the deviation of subsequent real consumption from previously announced leads to the appearance of penalties from the wholesa...
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At present among renewable sources the wind and solar plants have the most significant portion of power generation. Randomly changing and intermittent nature of this power leads to the stochasticity of the power grid mode, estimation of parameters of which requires application of probabilistic modeling. In the paper it is proposed an advanced algor...
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Modern electricity grids continue to be vulnerable to large-scale blackouts. As all states leading to large-scale blackouts are unique, there is no algorithm to identify pre-emergency states. Moreover, numerical conventional methods are computationally expensive, which makes it difficult to use for the on-line security assessment. Machine learning...
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In recent years, due to liberalization, power systems are being operated closer and closer to their limits. At the same time, they have increased in size and complexity. Both factors increase the risk of major power outages and blackouts. Most of the existing emergency control ideologies use two approaches: control in case of accidental disturbance...
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Majority of recent large-scale blackouts have been caused by voltage instability. This paper proposes new algorithms and implementation principles of an intelligent emergency control based on machine learning models and decentralized adaptive models that can effectively prevent voltage instability before they lead to major blackouts and overall col...
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В последние десять лет отключения в энергообъединениях Северной Америке, Европе и Азии наглядно демонстрируют повышение вероятности крупных системных аварий. Подобные аварии обычно происходят в результате определённых чрезвычайных событий в электроэнергетических системах (ЭЭС). Как показывает практика эксплуатации на определённом этапе развития ава...
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The problem of forecasting state variables of electric power system is studied. The paper suggests data-driven adaptive approach based on hybrid-genetic algorithm which combines the advantages of genetic algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm. The proposed method has two stages. At the first stage the input signal is decomposed into orthogonal...
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One of the most promising approaches for complex technical systems analysis employs ensemble methods of classification. Ensemble methods enable to build a reliable decision rules for feature space classification in the presence of many possible states of the system. In this paper, novel techniques based on decision trees are used for evaluation of...
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Voltage collapse is a critical problem that impacts power system operational security. Timely and accurate assessment of voltage security is necessary to detect alarm states in order to prevent a large-scale blackout. This paper presents an on-line voltage security assessment scheme using periodically updated random forest-based decision trees. We...
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With rapidly increasing complexity of power grids in Europe, North America and Asia, liberalization of electricity markets and increasing penetration of renewable energy, the risk of large-scale emergencies and blackouts increases. This paper proposes a novel approach for development of software for modelling of decentralized intelligent systems fo...
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In modern electricity grids uncertainties only multiply. The ongoing deregulation and the expansion of renewable energy in power system worldwide require more complex control and decision making. As a result, large-scale blackouts still continue to happen. The authors deal with a topical issue: how to take the effective preventive actions given ran...
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The novel adaptive hybrid models are proposed for time series forecasting and features classification problems. The proposed forecasting model combines the Hilbert–Huang transform and random forests. The efficiency of proposed adaptive approaches is demonstrated on two cases studies: wind power ramps prediction and detection of alarm states in a po...
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To improve power system reliability, it is important to reduce the amount of load shedding when a contingency occurs. Along with a comparison of the conventional load shedding methods, this paper presents an intelligent approach based on a centralized coordinated algorithm using a set of influence coefficients. The proposed method divides power sys...
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A novel hybrid data-driven approach is developed for forecasting power system parameters with the goal of increasing the efficiency of short-term forecasting studies for non-stationary time-series. The proposed approach is based on mode decompo-sition and a feature analysis of initial retrospective data using the Hilbert-Huang transform and machine...
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In recent years, due to liberalization, power systems are being operated closer and closer to their limits. At the same time, they have increased in size and complexity. Both factors increase the risk of major power outages and blackouts. In emergency and abnormal conditions, a power system operator has to deal with large amounts of data. However,...
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We propose a modification of the adaptive approach to time series forecasting. On the first stage, the original signal is decomposed with respect to a special empirical adaptive orthogonal basis, and the Hilbert's integral transform is applied. On the second stage, the resulting orthogonal functions and their instantaneous amplitudes are used as in...
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The novel hybrid model for forecasting of time series characterized by nonlinear, nonstationary behavior is presented. Experimental studies on synthetic and real data are carried out and discussed. The application of developed approach for forecasting of price situation in the electricity market and for forecasting of the parameters of the expected...
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A novel hybrid data-driven approach is developed for forecasting power system parameters with the goal of increasing the efficiency of short-term forecasting studies for non-stationary time-series. The proposed approach is based on mode decomposition and a feature analysis of initial retrospective data using the Hilbert-Huang transform and machine...
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Secondary substations are usually equipped with short-circuit detectors only indicating that an over-current has occurred for a given line. In case of a fault, further information about type and location is required to recover an assured grid operation as fast as possible. Conventional algorithms for fault detection used in high voltage grids are n...
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A neural multi-agent-based approach for system monitoring and preventing large-scale emergencies in power systems is presented in this paper. The automatic emergency control process is represented as a neural multi-agent system with hierarchical architecture. The proposed system consist of two main parts: the alarm trigger, a Kohonen neural network...
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Recent large-scale blackouts have demonstrated that secure operation of large interconnected power systems cannot be achieved without full understanding of the system behavior during abnormal and emergency conditions. This paper is focused on applying learning clustering algorithms for identifying critical states in power systems. The authors propo...