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4, DECEMBER 2013
Advanced Distribution Management System
A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos, Fellow, IEEE, Evangelos Polymeneas, Student Member, IEEE,
Zhenyu Tan, Student Member, IEEE, Renke Huang, Student Member, IEEE, and Dongbo Zhao, Student Member, IEEE
Abstract—This paper proposes an advanced distribution man-
agement system (DMS) that a) monitors each component and per-
forms protection functions using a dynamic state estimation, b)
the estimated states are transmitted to the DMS where the real
time model of the entire feeder is synthesized, c) uses the real time
model to perform upper level optimization (operations planning)
and lower level optimization (real time control) via a hierarchical
optimization procedure; and d) applies proper controls to operate
the system at optimal points. The proposed approach for protec-
tion, operations planning, and real time control of the system pro-
vides the infrastructure for additional important applications. As
an example, the paper presents a novel application for monitoring
available reserves from all resources in the system. We propose the
concept of Reserve-O-Meter that monitors in real time the avail-
able reserves from all resources (utility and customer owned).
Index Terms—DMS (distribution management system), DSE
(distributed dynamic state estimation), ESS (energy storage
system), GPS (global positioning system), HAOP (hours ahead
operations planning), RTO (real time optimization), setting-less
protection, spinning reserve, TCL (thermostatically controlled
loads).
NOMENCLATURE:
Variables:
Device controls at time .
Device active power controls at time
Remaining (other than active power) device
controls at time .
Device stochastic parameters at time
Device internal state variables at time
Node across variables (voltages) at time
Device state and node voltage initial
estimates.
Energy price ($/MWh) during [
Voltage phasor of phase p at node i.
Angle phasor of phase p at node i.
Voltage magnitude at bus i.
Rated voltage magnitude at bus i.
Manuscript received October 02, 2012; revised February 08, 2013; accepted
April 25, 2013. Date of publication November 14, 2013; date of current version
November 25, 2013. Paper no. TSG-00680-2012.
The authors are with the School of Electrical and Computer Engi-
neering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA.
(e-mail: sakis.m@gatech.edu; epolym@gatech.edu; ztan30@gatech.edu;
dzhao8@gatech.edu; rhuang6@gatech.edu)
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online
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Functions:
Device state equations.
Network flow equations.
Device binding constraints.
Total active power consumed during [ ,
). It is a function of the node voltages.
I. INTRODUCTION
T
HE proliferation of customer owned smart devices and
active resources such as smart appliances, plugin hybrid
electric vehicles (PHEVs), rooftop PVs, etc. makes the electric
load highly controllable. One can take advantage of the con-
trollability of the electric load to enable higher efficiency (loss
minimization, load levelization, etc.) and to improve the relia-
bility of the system by responding in cases of need.
The potential of smart loads to improve the reliability and
the operating cost of the electric power system is undisputable.
However, the approaches to enable these benefits are debated.
There are two schools of thought: a) market approach based
on incentives to customers [1]–[6] and b) centralized approach
. using coordinated control of participating customers [7], [8].
Hybrid approaches are also possible. The infrastructure require-
ments of the market approach are comparably simpler, for ex-
ample two way smart meters can provide the required commu-
. nications. However the design of the market approach could
. be challenging especially if unwanted consequences are to be
avoided such as shifting of peak loads, unpredictability of de-
. mand response in cases of need, etc. The centralized approach
needs a much more sophisticated infrastructure of metering,
communications, analytics, controls, and participation (consent)
of customers. The centralized approach enables maximum ben-
, ).
efits and avoidance of unwanted side effects.
Substantial literature exists on the topic of optimal central-
ized distributed energy resource (DER) operation. Ngand and
Sheblé [9] discuss an optimal direct load control scheme based
on maximization of the utility’s profit, while Ruiz et al. [10]
adopt a similar approach, but make an important contribution
in the modeling of thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs)
within this optimization problem. Celli et al. [11] focus on
optimization of distributed storage operation, and in [12] Pilo
et al. present an optimization scheme considering a wide range
of controllable DERs. Similarly, Molderink et al. [13] use a
three level approach to optimally schedule house loads, without
inconveniencing the residents. Sathyanarayana and Heydt [14]
propose formulating distribution optimization as a multi-objec-
tive problem and finding a Pareto optimal policy for it. Thus,
existing literature covers the topic of optimization algorithm
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Fig. 1. Illustration of overall approach.
formulation to a great extent, but from the simulation/analysis
point of view and ignores the issue of real time applications.
This paper addresses the issues associated with real time data
acquisition, filtering the data with state estimation procedures,
formulation of the coordination problem in real time, and
implementation of the controls in real time. Specifically, we
propose a distributed state estimation procedure that extracts
the real time high fidelity model of the system several times per
second. The model is used to formulate the optimal operation
of utility and customer owned resources. This combination of
high fidelity monitoring and real time optimized control for
the components in the distribution system provides the funda-
mental block of an advanced distribution management system.
A number of byproducts can be developed and integrated into
this system. One such example is presented in Section VII.
Although some models of the individual components of the
system have been proposed in peer research and by the authors
of this paper before, an integrated distribution-level real-time
management system is a new development and the focus of this
paper. By enabling the unique system level real-time control of
components, the proposed system can achieve not only better
performance with higher accuracy but also extended and new
functionalities.
The paper is organized as follows: Section II provides the
general method description; Section III discusses the compo-
nent-level distributed dynamic state estimation that enables Set-
ting-less protection of each component; Section IV describes the
synthesis of the distribution feeder state; Section V describes
the two-level optimization scheme used to optimally control all
controllable components and smart loads; Section VI presents
sample results for the approach; Section VII presents an addi-
tional application for this system, a real time reserve capacity
meter. And Section VIII provides conclusions and comments.
II. METHOD DESCRIPTION
A centralized coordination/optimization approach is pro-
posed for the integrated system of utility and customer owned
resources. The overall structure is shown in Fig. 1.
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Red lines represent control command flow, blue lines rep-
resent data flow and grey lines represent the single line dia-
gram of the power system. The basic component of the pro-
posed system is the universal monitoring protection and control
unit (UMPCU) which performs distributed dynamic state esti-
mation (DSE) at the local (component) level and provides the
real time model of the component, consisting of: a) estimated
state, b) connectivity, and c) mathematical model of the com-
ponent. These results are used to perform component protection
(setting-less protection). Then the real time model is commu-
nicated to the distribution management system (DMS) where it
is utilized to synthesize the real time model of the entire dis-
tribution feeder [15], [17]. The UMPCU also receives control
commands from DMS through red lines and applies these con-
trols to individual components.
It should be emphasized that the functional specifications of
the UMPCU can be met by current top-of-the-line numerical
protective relays. Specifically, the computational power of these
relays is adequate to perform the analytics of the UMPCU, i.e.,
the state estimation based protection function and the extraction
of the real time model of the component by appropriately pro-
gramming. These relays are also able to receive control signals
from the centralized DMS and control the component as appro-
priate. In current practice, a centralized data acquisition system
linking these relays already exists. The feasibility of such a data
acquisition system for execution of a system-wide state estima-
tion is demonstrated in [15]–[17]. Other data acquisition sys-
tems, such as the home-area networks discussed in [18], [19],
can be integrated into proposed system. Relays and data acqui-
sition system are ubiquitous and therefore the proposed system
can be constructed with small additional investments.
The system described above provides the detailed state of the
entire distribution feeder (DF) and all resources attached to this
system. The system enables a number of operational functions
such as voltage control, reconfiguration for loss optimization,
operations planning, etc. Here we will focus on the use of this
system to a) optimize and control the system, and b) to provide
in real time the available capacity for demand response in terms
of the existing reserves in the various resources and to exer-
cise these reserves, when needed, without inconvenience to end
users. This application is described in Section VII in the paper.
III. STATE ESTIMATION BASED SETTING-LESS PROTECTION
The proposed advanced DMS is based on a fast, reliable, and
distributed state estimator (DSE) that provides the real time
model of the system at rates of 10 times per second. This is
achieved by operating on each device independently using the
instrumentation for protection of the device. The DSE extracts
the real time model of the device which consists of a) connec-
tivity information, b) estimated states in terms of waveforms,
and c) mathematical model of the device. The method requires
that at least one data acquisition system is GPS synchronized.
In this case the real time model of the device is computed on
a common time reference (UTC time). The overall approach
is illustrated in Fig. 2. A more detailed implementation of the
setting-less protection is illustrated in Fig. 3. The protection
function described in this system is referred to as “setting-less
protection” because it simplifies the settings of the protection
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Fig. 2. Functional diagram of setting-less protection unit.
Fig. 3. Illustration of setting-less protection scheme via dynamic state estima-
tion.
function and it does not require coordination with protection
functions of other devices. The basic idea here is that the “set-
ting-less protection” continuously monitors the validity of the
mathematical model of the component under normal operations
in a systematic way by the use of the DSE. The method is de-
scribed in detail in [20].
It is important to recognize that while the protection function
operates on waveform data (point on waveform) the state esti-
mate for the entire feeder is needed in terms of phasors. For this
reason, the system computes the phasors of the various states
from the estimated waveform data (virtual PMU). The proposed
system is designed to compute the frequency domain real time
model 10 times per second. Thus the phasors are computed once
per 0.1 seconds using waveform data of the last 0.1 seconds (ap-
proximately 6 cycles). The phasors with the GPS time stamp and
real time model of each component is transmitted to the DMS.
It is emphasized that the proposed approach facilitates fast
communications. Specifically, each device sends to the DMS
only its real time model which comprises a very small number
of data. When connectivity changes, then connectivity data are
transmitted by exception. Similarly if model changes occur, the
new mathematical model will be transmitted by exception. The
end result is that while the instrumentation may be collecting
data at rates of hundred thousands of data points per second,
the frequency domain state (phasors) are only a few tens of data
points per second. Only the frequency domain component state
is transmitted to the DMS.
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Fig. 4. Synthesis of subsystem or full system state estimate from component
state estimates.
IV. SUBSTATION/DISTRIBUTION MODEL SYNTHESIS
The frequency domain component states are used to directly
synthesize the state of subsystems as well as the state of the
entire distribution feeder. The process is illustrated in Fig. 4.
The figure illustrates how the DMS synthesizes the model of
the entire distribution feeder. Each component’s connectivity
data is used to synthesize the topology of the feeder. Using that
topology, state estimates from each component that have the
same GPS timestamp are immediately combined (with no addi-
tional calculations) to obtain the overall system estimate. Sim-
ilarly, the component models are combined with the feeder’s
topology data to obtain its real time model.
V. TWO-LEVEL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION
The model synthesis procedure outlined above provides the
real time model of the entire distribution feeder that may include
D components and N nodes. The real time model is updated
10 times per second (this capability has been already demon-
strated in practice [16]) and is used to formulate and solve a
two-level optimization procedure. This procedure generates the
control signals transmitted by the DMS to each individual com-
ponent. While the system state is updated 10 times per second,
we propose to run the optimization once per minute. Thus the
control signals are recalculated once per min. This frequency is
achievable with the developed technology.
The distribution feeder real time model is in the form:
(1)
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The variables are defined in the nomenclature section. Note
that the state equations F were derived from each component’s
dynamic model (see Appendix), hence their algebraic form in
(1) is obtained through an appropriate integration method. Also
note that is a stochastic process modelling uncertain param-
eters including solar irradiation and ambient temperature that
affect component behavior. In (1) the binding constraints
model the following type of considerations: a) component rat-
ings must be observed, and b) component owner must not be in-
convenienced. The latter constraints ensure that any control se-
quence applied to device i will not violate the “convenience”
tolerance limits provided by the device customer. For a TCL
those are maximum and minimum temperature set points, for a
PHEV this is a device charging deadline, etc. A detailed com-
ponent model including this type of constraints can be found in
Appendix A.
The proposed DMS is responsible for specifying the device
controls in an optimal fashion. However, to ensure optimality,
certain controls must be optimized considering a horizon of sev-
eral hours (e.g., PHEV charging, TCL operation, storage device
charging/discharging etc.) while others must be optimized con-
sidering their instantaneous effect (e.g., load tap changers (LTC)
setting, power electronics (PE) converter reactive power injec-
tion, etc.). For this purpose, the controls vector is decomposed
into two components:
(2)
where are the controls that specify a component’s active
power generation/consumption (and hence are longer-horizon
controls) and are the remaining controls mentioned above.
To address the issue mentioned above, the proposed DMS
specifies the controls using a two-level optimization scheme.
The upper level, referred to as Hours Ahead Operation Plan-
ning (HAOP), specifies the optimal for the
planning time interval [ ), spanning several hours, and con-
sidering the forecast for the stochastic parameters. The lower
level, referred to as Real Time Optimization (RTO), is solved at
each instant and uses the quasi-steady state version of (1) as a
model, and the optimal specified by the HAOP as equality
constraints, where . Given the uncertain nature
of the problem, these equality constraints are soft constraints al-
lowing the optimization method to compute an optimal solution
that will minimize deviations of these constraints in case a fea-
sible solution satisfying all constraints does not exist. Physical
constraints are hard constraints and constraints such as end-user
convenience, have the highest priority resulting in a solution that
satisfies the physical constraints as well as soft constraints based
on a priority order. Most of the times all constraints are satis-
fied. Note that the time step of the HAOP is user defined and is
a multiple of the time interval between two successive solutions
of the RTO.
A. Hours Ahead Operations Planning (HAOP)
As suggested in (1), in order to optimize the DF’s cost during
a time interval [ ) the stochastic process
must be considered. This would result in a stochastic optimiza-
tion program, in which the expected value of the cost function
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should be minimized. When formulating the HAOP optimiza-
tion problem, however, the proposed DMS uses the expected
values of , thus solving a deterministic optimization problem
and ensuring computational tractability. It can be argued that
this choice does not adversely affect the feasibility and opti-
mality of the problem because: i) the uncertain parameters in
question can be forecast with a relatively low degree of un-
certainty when the time horizon is short, ii) the deterministic
optimization problem is solved frequently with renewed initial
estimates for the DF state ( and ) from
the distributed state estimator which runs at very high rates, iii)
the proposed DMS operates with quadratic models [21], [22] of
the functions F, G, H. Hence, the resulting nonlinear program is
quadratically constrained with a linear objective, and is solved
using mature methods of second order cone programming which
can be solved with great efficiency by interior-point solvers, as
discussed in [23], [25], iv) the RTO problem (Section V-B) in-
corporates relaxation of soft equality constraints expressed in
terms of the control directives to ensure feasibility.
The deterministic HAOP that minimizes the distribution
feeder’s total cost of energy is:
(3)
Note that the HAOP computes the optimal controls, ,
and , , for all the time intervals in the
planning horizon [ ) but only the controls ,
are used as equality constraints for the real time optimization
(RTO) described next.
B. Real Time Optimization
The RTO specifies the actual control vector to be trans-
mitted as a command to the components controlled directly by
the proposed DMS during [ ). The RTO algorithm uses
the most recent DF model synthesized by the DMS. Since the
RTO is solved at a given instant of time, it uses a static model of
the DF instead of the dynamic used by the HAOP. In this model
the dynamic state equations in (1) are replaced by their al-
gebraic counterparts , assuming a steady-state equilibrium.
Note that at time the uncertainty is realized, and this is no
longer a stochastic program. The objective function is mini-
mization of total DF losses. The resulting RTO problem is:
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(4)

In (4), the optimal choice of active power controls of the

HAOP is enforced as a soft constraint for the RTO through the
relaxation variables (L is positive-definite matrix).
Note that the objective of the real time control can also be
the minimization of the voltage magnitude variations of all the
buses of the DF by changing the formulation of the objective
function in (4) to:

(5)

VI. EXAMPLE RESULTS

The test system shown in Fig. 5(a) is utilized to demonstrate
simulation results with the proposed advanced distribution
management system. A typical feeder is shown connected to a
substation. A 200 kW/1 MWhr battery energy storage system
(ESS), a 600 kW wind turbine, and a 500 kW solar array are
connected to the feeder, in addition to several clusters of loads,
whose maximum capacity is 2.4 MW. For the purposes of
this study the system is simulated during a summer day with
peak load of 2150 kW. To illustrate the approach only TCLs Fig. 5. Sample test system. (a) Single-line diagram. (b) Hourly load and dis-
are considered controllable and their maximum capacity is tributed generation data.
400 kW. The hourly data used is summarized in Fig. 5(b).
The simulation was executed in Matlab using the optimization
toolbox to solve the problems described in Section V. As
stated in Section VI, all problems are in second-order cone
programming (SOCP) format.
The HAOP is able to solve the day-ahead optimization
problem for this feeder and obtain the optimal controls for the
TCLs and the ESS. The objective function used in this case is a
linear one, shown in (3), and the vector c has been appropriately
chosen to achieve peak reduction. Specifically for TCLs, it is
assumed that customers have a preferred temperature of
but are willing to tolerate a fluctuation of providing a
margin for control. To demonstrate the usefulness of the pro- Fig. 6. Optimal versus baseline TCL control. (a) Total TCL load in the feeder.
posed optimal TCL control, it is compared against a baseline (b) Temperature inside a residential building.
case, in which all TCLs are controlled via a traditional “dead-
band-type” control, where the temperature fluctuates between to a simple principle of operation: charge during the off-peak
and . Our controller uses limits that are one degree hours and discharge during the peak hours. The battery’s stored
above the thermostat, i.e., the band [ to ]. As shown energy, which is a vital constraint for its operation, is shown in
in Fig. 6(a) the optimal TCL control achieves a peak reduction Fig. 7(b).
of ( of peak air-conditioner load for that The combined effects of the ESS and the TCL control are
day). shown in Fig. 8, where the baseline, corresponding to the hourly
The proposed HAOP formulation ensures customer comfort, load curve shown in Fig. 5(b), is compared with the hourly ac-
as verified by Fig. 6(b). The temperature inside the customer’s tive power consumed by the entire feeder when it is under the
house is kept within the tolerance bounds, increasing slightly proposed DMS control.
during the peak hours. However, this reduced usage of the TCLs As outlined in Section V, the HAOP is only the first stage
is enough to cause a sizeable overall peak reduction of the proposed control scheme. RTO is equally vital, to ensure
Control of the ESS charge/discharge schedule is also de- a smooth voltage profile across the feeder. It receives the op-
termined by the HAOP. Fig. 7(a) shows the battery system’s erating schedule determined by the HAOP and upholds it as a
charge/discharge schedule during the day which corresponds constraint, which can be relaxed if needed, as shown in (4). To

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Fig. 7. ESS charge/discharge cycle. (a) Battery consumed power. (b) Battery
stored energy.
Fig. 8. Hourly feeder consumption: baseline versus proposed approach.
Fig. 9. Voltage profile and reactive power injection of wind turbine. (a) Hourly
voltage profile at pcc. (b) Hourly reactive power injection.
demonstrate the purpose of the RTO, the daily voltage profile
at the point of common coupling (PCC) of the wind turbine is
shown in Fig. 9(a). The case where the ESS, the wind turbine
and the solar array are operating with unit power factor (dashed
line) is considered the baseline. The objective function used for
the RTO in this case is (5).
The proposed RTO scheme is proven capable to prevent the
over voltages during the early hours when the wind turbine is
almost at full capacity and the load is minimal, by determining
the wind turbine must consume reactive power. The opposite
decision is made during the peak hours, during which the wind
farm must generate reactive power to mitigate the low voltages.
Overall, a healthy voltage profile is achieved. The situation is
similar for the rest of the feeder.
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VII. ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS: EXAMPLE:
RESERVE-O-METER
The proposed system enables a wide range of new applica-
tions, since the utility now has enhanced visibility of all the
components, customer or utility owned, along the distribution
feeder. As an example, an application is described in [24] which
utilizes state estimation of aggregate TCLs to manage energy/
power imbalances in the power system.
In this paper we describe another application, named Re-
serve-O-Meter (RoM), which uses the component real time
model, as obtained by the DSE, to calculate how much reserve
capacity is available from that component (e.g., a responsive
load). This application enhances the overall system’s reliability
and reduces the cost of reserve, given that it secures additional
reserves from intelligent monitoring of assets without incurring
additional fuel or monetary costs, unlike fossil fuel spinning
reserves.
The proposed RoM module calculates the reserve available
from components with controllable active power generation
(i.e., distributed generation or storage plants) or active power
demands (i.e., controllable loads), subject to the binding con-
straints outlined in Section V. Hence the proposed approach
guarantees that the reserve value calculated can be called
upon during power system emergencies without violations
of these constraints, and thus it is superior to load shedding
schemes, which impose curtailment of load inconveniencing
the end user. To ensure no constraint violation, the amount of
reserve power available from one component is not enough
information: the time for which it can be sustained before the
local constraints are violated should also be calculated. One
should consider the simple example of a house air-conditioner:
if the state estimation reports that the air conditioner is on at
time , it is feasible to turn it off only as long as the house
temperature, also given by the DSE, is below the maximum at
. If it is turned off, it can remain turned off only for as long as
the temperature of the house remains within the desired limits.
This can be calculated by simulation using the house thermal
model, as shown in Appendix A.
Fig. 10 shows the combined hourly available reserve from the
TCLs connected to the sample feeder of Fig. 5(a). The total TCL
load in the feeder for the same day is shown in Fig. 6(a). The
importance of the underlying reserve power versus reserve du-
ration tradeoff is evident: less reserve power is available during
the off peak hours, simply because less TCLs are operational at
the time, but the reserve is available for longer periods of time.
On the contrary, during the peak hours more reserve power is
available, but for much smaller time, since the temperature of
the cooled space tends to be closer to the highest acceptable
limit during that period as shown in Fig. 6(b). The proposed
RoM module is able to capture that tradeoff, and ensures that
the true reserve providing capabilities of the DN are captured.
VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND COMMENTS
This paper has presented a new approach for optimizing, con-
trolling and protecting a distribution system with distributed re-
sources, utility and customer owned. The available instrumen-
tation for protection of the various components of the system
is utilized to provide the measurements which are utilized in a
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where:

component internal state vector;

component external state vector (across
variables);
component control vector;
component through variable;
component uncertain parameters;
state equations;
component constraints.
Fig. 10. Hourly available TCL reserve and reserve duration for feeder being
studied. Consider a residential house with two TCLs: An electric
water heater (EWH) whose water temperature is state and
distributed state estimation that provides the real time model of an air conditioner (AC), with representing the temperature
the system at speeds of 10 times per second. The distributed inside the house. For this model, the ambient temperature is
state estimation is enabled with a new approach for protection an exogenous random variable.
of the various components of the distribution system referred to The standard form model of the two TCLs is:
as setting-less protection. Setting-less protection uses synchro-
nized measurements and a dynamic state estimation that pro-
vides the real time model of the system in the time domain. A
virtual PMU converts the time domain real time model into a
frequency domain real time model and transmits it to the dis-
tribution management system where the real time model of the
entire system (feeder) is synthesized.
The real time model enables the optimization and control of
the system via a two level hierarchical optimization procedure.
The two optimization problems have been formulated and ex-
ample results have been presented.
(7)
The proposed system enables development of additional ap-
plications. One such application is described in a paper listed in
the references and another is described in this paper. This ap-
thermal capacitance of the EWH and the
plication has been named “Reserve-O-Meter,” or RoM. It com-
house;
putes in real time available reserves from customer owned as
well utility owned resources that can be used in case of emer- thermal conductance between house and
gency. The RoM is a real time tool that reduces the required re- EWH;
serves from large fossil units that normally must be on standby. thermal conductance between house and
Example results of the proposed approach are provided for an ambient;
example test system.
The paper is focused on the technical aspects of the approach. duty cycle of the EWH (control variable);
Since customer participation is important for realizing the ben- duty cycle of the AC (control variable);
efits of this system, incentives to entice customer participation
are very important. These issues have not been discussed in the coefficients of performance of EWH and AC.
paper but will be addressed in subsequent papers. In (7), the inequality constraints on the EWH and house tem-
peratures are binding constraints for the model and ensure the
APPENDIX “no customer inconvenience” requirement.
COMPONENT MODEL EXAMPLE Fig. 11 is an example illustrating how the directives from
two-level optimization would coordinate with the local air con-
This Appendix presents the standard form of each compo- ditioner control, for a 2 kW AC unit. The data shown in the
nent model and an example of a model used in the proposed figure are taken from the example test system, which includes
approach, that of a residential house with thermostatically con- this 2 kW AC unit.
trolled loads (TCLs).
The general format of the component model is:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
(6.a)
The work presented in the paper has been supported by NSF,
(6.b) DoE, EPRI, PSERC, NEC, and GE. Their support is greatly
(6.c) appreciated.

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Fig. 11. Air conditioner control example: (a) optimal control directives; (b)
original local control; (c) local control interfered by optimal control directives;
(d) room temperature with local control; (e) room temperature with optimal con-
trol; (f) power consumption with optimal control directives; (g) ambient tem-
perature of a day.
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A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos (M’76–SM’83–F’93) was
born in Katerini, Greece, in 1949. He received the
M.E. and E.E. diploma from the National Technical
University of Athens, Greece, in 1972; the M.S.E.E.
and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1974 and 1976, respec-
tively. In 1971, he worked for Western Electric in
Atlanta. In 1976, he joined the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, where
he is presently a Georgia Power Distinguished Pro-
fessor. He is active in teaching and research in the
general areas of modeling, analysis, and control of power systems. He has made
significant contributions to power system grounding, harmonics, and reliability
assessment of power systems. He is the author of the books Power Systems
Grounding and Transients (Marcel Dekker, June 1988), “Lightning and Over-
voltage Protection,” section 27, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers
(McGraw Hill, 1993). He holds three patents and he has published over 220
technical papers. In 2005 he received the IEEE Richard Kaufman Award.
Dr. Meliopoulos is the Chairman of the Georgia Tech Protective Relaying
Conference, a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi.
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Evangelos Polymeneas (S’12) was born in Athens,
Greece. He received a Diploma in ECE from Na-
tional Tchnical University of Athens, Greece in 2010.
He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. His
research interests include large-scale power system
estimation and control focusing on optimization of
power system operation under uncertainty.
Zhenyu Tan (S’12) received a B.E. degree in
electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in
Beijing, China, in 2011. He is currently pursuing a
Ph.D. degree, working in the Power System Control
and Automation Laboratory at the Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. His research
interests lie in power system generator protection
and control, distributed power system automation.
transmission and distribution automation, and electric market optimization.
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Renke Huang (S’09) was born in Wenzhou, China
in 1984. He received the B.S. degree in electric
power system and automation from the Shanghai
Jiao Tong University, China, in 2006 and the M.S.
degree in E.C.E. from the Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2009. He is currently
pursuing his Ph.D. at the School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering of Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology. His research interests include power systems
automation, control, and the application of digital
signal processing technologies in power system area.
Dongbo Zhao (S’10) was born in Shenyang, China,
in 1985. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in elec-
trical engineering from Tsinghua University, China,
in 2008 and from Texas A&M University, College
Station, Tx, USA, in 2010 respectively. He is cur-
rently a Ph.D student in Dept. of Electrical and Com-
puter Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA, USA. He has worked with ABB Inc.
US Corporate Research Center located in Raleigh,
NC from 2010 to 2011. His research interests include
power system control, protection, reliability analysis,