Development of a methodology for assessing the adequacy of electric power systems

Abstract

This study presents the results of a research into the developing a methodology for assessing the adequacy of advanced electric power systems characterized by the integration of various innovative technologies, which complicates their analysis. The methodology development is aimed at solving two main problems: 1) increase the adequacy of modeling the processes that occur in the electric power system and 2) enhance the computational efficiency of the adequacy assessment methodology. This study proposes a new mathematical model to minimize the power shortage and enhance the adequacy of modeling the processes. The model considers quadratic power transmission losses and network coefficients. The computational efficiency of the adequacy assessment methodology is enhanced using efficient random- number generators to form the calculated states of electric power systems and machine learning methods to assess power shortages and other reliability characteristics in the calculated states.