APPLICATION OF CLOUD

COMPUTING FOR POWER

SYSTEMS
 Since the earlier days the power system is being changed through
different restructuring and policy changes at various periods. In
this process information communication and computation systems
are playing a major role in monitoring, controlling and improving
the energy delivery system. In smart grid a vast amount of data is
collected from every corner of the energy delivery network, from
customer energy meters, energy generation units in the customer
premises and third-party players. This two way information flow
needs the right type of communication and the ways to collect vast
Abstract amount of data has to be processed in a reliable, distributed,
parallel and scalable computing resources. While the current day
power system is lacking such computing capacity to address this
requirement. As the scalability is being the main problem these
days and Some of the researchers suggest that cloud computing
may be used to address this problem. In this paper the application
of cloud computing for power system application is going to deal
with the current cloud application in current day power system and
the way the cloud is being used to analyze the current problem
and provide the solution to the problems .
 1.Cloud computing:
Cloud computing is the delivery of different services through
the Internet. These resources include tools and applications
like data storage, servers, databases, networking, and

Introduction software. Rather than keeping files on a hard drive or local

storage device, keeping them on the cloud storage will make
them possible to save them to a remote storage area
database. As long as an electronic device has access to the
web, it has access to the data and the software programs to
1. Cloud run it. This way of storing the data on cloud would helpful
computing during disasters and server’s crashes as the data would be
safe in remotely and we could recover the lost data when it is
on the cloud. Cloud computing is a popular option for people
and businesses for a number of reasons including cost
savings, increased productivity, speed and efficiency,
performance, and security.
 ● Some of the Cloud application for Power System are as
below
2. Cloud ● i. cloud providers
application for ● i. A Low Resource Utilization Rateii. High Operation and
Power System Maintenance Costs
● iii. Slow Service Deployment
● iv. Dispersed Management Policies
 ● Cloud computing provides maintainability and automatic updates of new software, OS, databases, and
third-party software. It also reduces IT labor cost for a business.
● Cloud service providers have data centers in various locations, which makes them faster and more
reliable. Larger companies such as Microsoft and AWS even have data centres around the world.

2.1. ● Cloud service providers are companies that establish public clouds, manage private clouds, or offer
on-demand cloud computing components (also known as cloud computing
Cloud providers services) like Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-
Service(SaaS). Cloud services can reduce business process costs when compared to on-premise IT. 
● There are a handful of well-known, major public cloud companies such as Alibaba Cloud, Amazon
Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Microsoft
Azure, but there are also hundreds of other cloud computing providers all over the world.
 ● In Cloud computing, energy consumption and resource utilization are strongly coupled.
● Specifically, resources with a low utilization rate still consume an unacceptable amount of energy
compared to the energy consumption of a fully utilized or sufficiently loaded Cloud computing.
● To increase resource utilization, task consolidation is an effective technique, greatly enabled by
virtualization technologies, which facilitate the concurrent execution of several tasks and, in turn,
2.2 A low reduce energy consumption.
resource ● The authors use two energy-conscious heuristics for task consolidation: MaxUtil, which aims to
utilization rate maximize resource utilization, and Energy Conscious Task Consolidation (ECTC) which explicitly
takes into account both active and idle energy consumption.
● ECTC computes the energy consumption based on an objective function derived from findings
reported in the literature. The chapter deals with the Cloud computing, energy models, and task
consolidation algorithms.
● It describes the complementarity approach and the related mathematical model.
 ● Cloud computing, and the resulting as-a-service business model, has drastically changed the way
many organizations operate. Whether it’s a product, software or even artificial intelligence, you can
now rent it.
● The cloud offers a myriad of benefits to manufacturers, as connected systems that are able to
communicate across the internet can be easily integrated. Hardware costs and investment in
information technology (IT) infrastructure are drastically reduced, which means companies don’t need
to invest in their own data centers.
2.3 Maintenance ● With a cloud-based maintenance application, there’s also no need for time-consuming or costly
in the Cloud updates. The cloud provider updates and maintains the server as well as the application software.
Reduced upfront costs can make this an extremely attractive option for small businesses.
● By equipping components and machines with sensors, maintenance staff can be alerted of a problem
before a breakdown.
● While cloud applications can cut costs, increase speed and improve the management of data and
analysis, the main benefit is increased machine uptime.
 ●  Cloud services have replaced many business-critical applications formerly run as on-premises
software, leading to a migration of sensitive data to the cloud.
2.4 Dispersed ● Use of personal devices when accessing cloud services, the movement of data between cloud services,
management and the sprawl of high-risk cloud services drive new areas of risk for companies using the cloud.
policies ● For organizations to secure their data they need a thorough understanding of where their data is and
how it is shared—especially with the rapid adoption of cloud services.
 ● It provides the power industry monitoring, management and
control of power system.
● Enabling grid state quickly with a large numbers of sensors
deployed in the network, control of power systems through internet
with a high scalability and simulation of smart grid behaviour.
● Primarily, cloud computing helps the power system to recover in
3. Cloud the blackout condition.
● Secondly, monitoring and scheduling of the power system can be
computing for performed with the help of cloud computing.
Smart Grid ● It also enables to have reliability evaluation of the power system.
● Recovery of power system after blackout proves to be a
complicated nonlinear optimization problem.
● As the number of the distributed power can be very large system
scheduling and operation needs to be maintained.
● These platforms provide better sharing and cooperation.
● With smart grid, various security threats must be overcome in
order to benefit fully from cloud computing.
● This new developing concept faces several security threats.
● Incompatibility of storage services provided by one vendor
with another vendor creates a threat to the system.
● As with cloud, data’s transfer, storage and retrieval takes
place so data integrity is another security concern.
 ● Cloud computing is a fast delivery of computational resource.
● Cloud computing provides a new way to achieve power system
online operation analysis and optimal control.
● Cloud computing in power system analysis includes various aspects
such as power flow calculation, the system restores monitoring,
scheduling, reliability analysis.
4. Cloud in ● According to National institute of standards and technology (NIST)
power systems cloud computing is defined as “a model for enabling convenient, on-
demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing
and current day resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
results management effort or service provider interaction.”
● The computing resources can be networks, servers, storage,
applications, and services.
● Cloud based systems are a sharing of an enormous amount of IT
infrastructures, such as computational and database resources in the
form of service, which focus on maximization the efficiency of
operation, scalability, maintainability and reliability by decreasing cost
 ● The cloud computing can divide lengthy calculation into small
segments with the help of intranet. After fragmentation, it is
delivered to a system consisting of many servers. Servers
perform computation and analysis of the information and
pass it to the end users. So, due to cloud computing, huge
information can be handled within a short span of time which
resembles it to the supercomputer’s grade service.
5. ● As distributed computing is finding place in electrical power
Implementation system which make its operation analogous to internet. The
cloud computing platform is categorized in to cloud
computing control center and computing resources
integration platform. With cloud computing, resource
allocation as per application can be done and can access to
storage resources on demand. Integration of the running grid
nodes or computation on a single computer system is
possible.
 ● Alternatively, cloud computing avoids improving the
computational ability of the node or computer. It automatically
gets enhanced through the clouds at every point in overall
system. Basically, in structural model, the basic storage layer
becomes the fundamental element of the Smart power
system. As different locations are omnipresent, so storage
devices are interconnected through network in power system.
Implementation ● On the other hand, basic management layers assimilate the
integration of all the devices in the cloud atmosphere. On the
other hand, the most flexible part of cloud computing is
application interface which provides different interfaces and
services to electric network as per the demand
 ● To meet the increasing restructuring requirement, to cope up the dynamic
energy user profile and regulatory issues in power system several
measures are taking place.
● Broadening the energy generation mix, which are owned by both utilities
and consumers, will restructure and optimize the overall energy delivery
network.
● This further leads the active involvement of different players such as
utilities, network operators, demand response providers and customers in
6. the power systems.
● In this case energy and information are exchanged in both ways to enable
Conclusion smooth operation and reliable energy delivery system.
● Huge amount of online and offline information need to be exchanged
among them and enormous data are collected by these players for different
uses.
● Cloud computing in power system analysis includes various aspects such
as power flow calculation, the system restores monitoring, scheduling,
reliability analysis.
● Cloud computing is one of the proposed solution which is expected to
provide a platform for future smart grid applications.
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