摘要
Today's power systems are seeing a paradigm shift under the energy transition,sparkled by the electrification of demand,digitalisation of systems,and an increasing share of decarbonated power generation.Most of these changes have a direct impact on their control centers,forcing them to handle weather-based energy resources,new interconnections with neighbouring transmission networks,more markets,active distribution networks,micro-grids,and greater amounts of available data.Unfortunately,these changes have translated during the past decade to small,incremental changes,mostly centered on hardware,software,and human factors.We assert that more transformative changes are needed,especially regarding human-centered design approaches,to enable control room operators to manage the future power system.This paper discusses the evolution of operators towards continuous operation planners,monitoring complex time horizons thanks to adequate real-time automation.Reviewing upcoming challenges as well as emerging technologies for power systems,we present our vision of a new evolutionary architecture for control centers,both at backend and frontend levels.We propose a unified hypervision scheme based on structured decision-making concepts,providing operators with proactive,collaborative,and effective decision support.
