Demand response based congestion management in a mix of pool and bilateral electricity market model

The independent system operator （ISO） is a key element in the deregulated structure with one of the responsibilities of transmission congestion management （CM）. The ISO opts market based solutions to manage congestion receiving bids from generation companies （GENCOs） as well as distribution companies （DISCOMs） to reschedule their generation and relocate demand. The nodal prices increases during the congestion hours and the demand response to nodal prices will be an effective tool for the control of congestion. In this paper, demand response-based CM has been proposed for a mix of pool and bilateral electricity market model. The linear bid curves have been considered for demand bids to respond to the congestion in the network. The bilateral demand has been obtained with minimum deviations in their preferred schedule. The impact of flexible alternating current transmission system （FACTS） devices viz static var compensator （SVC） and thyristor controlled series compensator （TCSC） has also been considered for demand management during congestion. Multi-line congestion cases have been considered to study the impact on demand response without and with FACTS devices. The proposed approach has been tested on the IEEE 24 bus test system.

Voltage control for static var compensator using novel optimal nonlinear PI

Static var compensators （SVCs） are used for voltage and reactive power control in power systems. In this paper, we will consider the structure of SVCs that mainly consists of Y-connection of mechanically-switched capacitor （MSC） and delta connection of thyrister-controlled reactor （TCR）. First, the control model of SVC was established in this paper. Then, a novel optimal nonlinear voltage controller for SVCs is proposed. The proposed SVC voltage controller consists of a nonlinear function and a conventional PI controller. The improved simplex method （SPX） is presented to adjust and optimize the parameters of the nonlinear PI controller in real-time, and to make transient state response procedure of SVC optimum. The integration of time multiplied absolute error （ITAE） is adopted as the optimized objective function of SPX. Simulation and engineering application results show that the proposed voltage control method is able to track reference voltage value of SVC immediately. It also demonstrates that the whole SVC control System can synthetically compensate reactive power.