CAREER: A Distributed Decision-Making System for Operating a Smart Grid

职业：一个分布式的决策系统运行的智能电网摘要：本研究的目的是探索一个分布式的决策系统，有效地运行一个智能电网，它被设想为包括三个层次，“微电网”，“宏电网”和“大电网”。该方法包括三个基本组成部分：决策框架，决策评估和决策方法。决策框架具有独特的属性，包括自治性、可扩展性、竞争性、兼容性、灵活性、协作性和可扩展性。决策评估使用可衡量的智能指标来评估决策框架在经济、排放、效率、利用率和可靠性方面的表现。决策方法实现建模，单元决策，系统决策和集成，以实现具有广泛分布的能源资源的具有成本效益，高可靠性和可持续性的智能电网。智力优势：拟议的研究解决了分布式能源的大规模部署所带来的能源，环境和经济挑战，并有能力评估其对智能电网在一系列运行条件下的性能的影响。建议的决策方法使用先进的分解和协调策略，以纳入智能电网运行的随机特征，并克服大规模决策问题的计算复杂性。拟议研究的成功将大大提高美国的经济和能源安全，因为减少了从外国进口的能源，减少了排放，提高所有经济部门的能源效率。拟议的项目将提高公众意识，并促进纳税人，监管机构，政治家，公用事业高管和市场参与者对智能电网运营复杂性的理解。研究成果将通过标准学术手段传播。

CAREER: A Distributed Decision-Making System for Operating a Smart GridAbstract:The objective of this research is to explore a distributed decision-making system for effectively operating a smart grid which is envisioned as encompassing three levels, "microgrid", "macrogrid" and "megagrid". The approach includes three essential components: Decision Framework, Decision Assessment, and Decision Approaches. The decision framework has distinct and unique attributes including autonomy, scalability, competition, compatibility, flexibility, collaboration and extensibility. The decision assessment uses measurable smartness indicators to assess the performance of the decision framework in terms of economic, emissions, efficiency, utilization and reliability. The decision approaches implement Modeling, Unit Decision, System Decision, and Integration to enable a cost-effective, highly-reliable and sustainable smart grid with widely-distributed energy resources. Intellectual Merit: The proposed research addresses the energy, environmental and economic challenges caused by the large-scale deployment of distributed energy resources, and has the ability to assess their impacts on the performance of smart grid over a range of operating conditions. The proposed decision-making approaches use advanced decomposition and coordination strategies to incorporate stochastic features of smart grid operation and overcome the computational complexity of large-scale decision-making problems.Broader Impacts: The success of the proposed research will significantly enhance the economic and energy security of the United States due to reduced energy imports from foreign sources, reduced emissions, and improved energy efficiency of all economic sectors. The proposed project will increase public awareness and advance the understanding of the complexity of smart grid operations among ratepayers, regulators, politicians, utility executives, and market participants. Research results will be disseminated via standard academic means.