SGER: Hierarchical Power Systems Control in a Changing Industry

美国和世界其他许多地区的9634255个伊利克电力系统正在经历剧烈的重组。趋势是放松对这个传统上受监管的垄断行业的监管，以允许经济竞争。在讨论支持产业结构的两个极端的技术和经济概念时，出现了许多混乱。在一种极端情况下，一些人主张保留和建立目前的技术框架和标准，以便在运营互联系统的同时容纳竞争性的非公用事业发电。另一个极端是那些认为电力系统应该完全基于经济竞争进行重组的人。工程界和经济界都需要改变思维，以便将这场辩论置于一个有意义的框架内，这对于确保无论哪种行业结构占优势、技术运作的基本原则以及自由市场经济都得到满足是至关重要的。对于关注大型动态电力系统的研究人员来说，这是一项艰巨的任务。这些问题的基本性质是系统论的。诚然，在大型系统方面有深厚背景的研究人员可以在与电力行业直接相关的现有问题的背景下，发现许多新的理论问题及其解决方案。但为了避免可能在所有情况下都成立的技术假设，人们需要一个系统的框架来提出这些问题。在这个项目中，我们将使用我们获得的大部分知识作为起点，进一步研究不断变化的电力行业中的分级控制问题。在下文中，我们描述了设想的控制结构在不断变化的行业中的重要性，并提出了几个将被研究的具体问题。***

9634255 Ilic Electric power systems in the United States and many other parts of the world are undergoing drastic restructuring. The trend is toward deregulating an industry that has traditionally been a regulated monopoly to allow for economic competition. Much confusion arises in discussing technical and economic concepts supporting the two extremes of industry structure. At one extreme, some advocate preserving and building upon the present technical framework and standards for operating an interconnected system while yet accommodating competitive non-utility-owned generation. At the other extreme are those who believe electric power systems should be restructured based entirely on economic competition. A change of thinking is needed in both engineering and economic circles to put the debate in a meaningful framework, which is essential for ensuring that, whichever industry structure prevails, basic principles of technical operation as well as the free market economy are met. This is a tall order for researchers concerned with large dynamic electric power systems. The issues are system-theoretic in their basic nature. True, researchers with a strong back-ground in large systems could identify many new theoretical issues and their solutions within the context of existing problems directly relevant to the power industry. But in order to avoid technical assumptions that may not hold in all cases, one needs a systematic framework for posing these problems. In this project, we will use much of our acquired knowledge as the starting point to further study the problems of hierarchical controls in a changing electric power industry. In what follows, we describe the importance of the envisioned control structures in a changing industry, and propose several specific problems that will be studied. ***