The Grid community is actively working on defining, deploying and standardizing protocols, mechanisms and infrastructure to support decentralized, seamless, and secure interactions across distributed resources. Such an infrastructure will enable a new generation of autonomic applications where the application components, Grid services, resources and data interact as peers. In this paper we desc...

The electricity grid is the backbone of the power network and is at the focal point of technological innovations. Utilities need to introduce distributed intelligence into their existing infrastructure to make them more reliable, efficient, and capable of exploiting and integrating alternative sources of energy. The intelligent grid includes the infrastructure and technologies required to allow...

Distributed energy resources and demand side management are expected to become more prevalent in the future electric power system. Coordinating the increased number of grid participants in an efficient and reliable way is going to be a major challenge. A potential solution is the employment of a distributed energy management approach which uses intelligence distributed over the grid to balance ...

A scalable multi-agent paradigm is presented for control of distributed energy resources to achieve higher reliability, higher power quality, and more efficient (optimum) power generation and consumption A dynamic hybrid multi-agent system is proposed in this paper as a means to achieve scalability for control of a large network of power generation, transmission, load, and compensation sources....

The time-varying demand and stochastic power generation from renewable distributed generating resources necessitate an exhaustive assessment of distribution feeder parameters for the purpose of longterm planning. This paper proposes a novel formulation of probabilistic load flow for distribution feeders with high penetration of renewable distributed generation. The dependency between the load d...

The IEC 61499 was developed thinking about the new generation of distributed control and automation systems. This provides essential resources for the development of distributed systems such as encapsulation, portability and reconfiguration. In this sense, and to ensure confidence in the operation should be implemented fault tolerance techniques dealing with hardware failures and errors off sof...

Due to disperse nature of renewable energy resources (RES), electricity generation is often taking place in small scale but main drawback is power quality. So to improve power quality issues, integration of renewable energy into the utility grid can be done either at transmission level or the distribution level depending on the scale of generation. The renewable resources like solar energy, win...

Power systems based on centralized production are facing two limitations: the lack of fossil fuels and need to reduce pollution; Therefore, importance distributed generation resources (DGs) has increased by connecting renewable energy network. With increasing penetration energies in network, power quality challenges low voltage medium distribution have become one main fields studies. Since most...

The restructured electric power industry has brought new challenges and concerns for the secured operation of stressed power systems. As renewable energy resources, distributed generation, and demand response become significant portions of overall generation resource mix, smarter or more intelligent system dispatch technology is needed to cope with new categories of uncertainty associated with ...