Quick Line Outage Identification in Urban Distribution Grids via Smart Meters

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02056v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 07:10:34 GMT
• Title: Quick Line Outage Identification in Urban Distribution Grids via Smart Meters
• Authors: Yizheng Liao, Yang Weng, Chin-woo Tan, Ram Rajagopal
• Abstract summary: We propose a data-driven outage monitoring approach based on the time series analysis with a theoretical guarantee. We prove via power flow analysis that the dependency of time-series voltage measurements exhibits significant statistical changes after line outages. We show that our approach only requires voltage magnitude for quick outage identification.
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• Abstract: The growing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in distribution grids raises various reliability issues due to DER's uncertain and complex behaviors. With a large-scale DER penetration in distribution grids, traditional outage detection methods, which rely on customers report and smart meters' last gasp signals, will have poor performance, because the renewable generators and storages and the mesh structure in urban distribution grids can continue supplying power after line outages. To address these challenges, we propose a data-driven outage monitoring approach based on the stochastic time series analysis with a theoretical guarantee. Specifically, we prove via power flow analysis that the dependency of time-series voltage measurements exhibits significant statistical changes after line outages. This makes the theory on optimal change-point detection suitable to identify line outages. However, existing change point detection methods require post-outage voltage distribution, which is unknown in distribution systems. Therefore, we design a maximum likelihood estimator to directly learn the distribution parameters from voltage data. We prove that the estimated parameters-based detection also achieves the optimal performance, making it extremely useful for fast distribution grid outage identifications. Furthermore, since smart meters have been widely installed in distribution grids and advanced infrastructure (e.g., PMU) has not widely been available, our approach only requires voltage magnitude for quick outage identification. Simulation results show highly accurate outage identification in eight distribution grids with 14 configurations with and without DERs using smart meter data.

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