The last years blackouts have indicated that the operation and control of power systems may need to be improved. Even if a lot of data was available, the operators at different control centers did not take the proper actions in time to prevent the blackouts. This depends partly on the reorganization of the control centers after the deregulation and partly on the lack of reliable decision suppor...

In this paper, a hybrid combination of Neuro and Fuzzy is proposed as a controller to solve the Automatic Generation Control (AGC) problem in a restructured power system that operates under deregulation pedestal on the bilateral policy. In each control area, the effects of the possible contracts are treated as a set of new input signal in a modified traditional dynamical model. The prominent ad...

In this paper, a multi stage fuzzy Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) type controller is proposed to solve the Load Frequency Control (LFC) problem in a restructured power system that operates under deregulation based on the bilateral policy scheme. In each control area, the effects of the possible contracts are treated as a set of new input signal in a modified traditional dynamical model....

Electric power industry deregulation has forced utilities to perform studies to determine the changes that should be made for efficiency improvements, cost reductions, and power quality enhancements. At the distribution system level, there are a number of attributes can influence the system operation performance. To fully evaluate the distribution network operation performance, a distribution p...

In the paper we developed a multi-agent system, based on network flow model and KQML, called MASCAN—Multi-Agent System to support negotiation of Cost Allocation on Network. Such problem is very important to the utility industries, such as, electricity and gas, transportation and logistics industry. In our system, each agent represents a node in a network, it does not receive any centralized con...

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system employ a wide range of computer and communication technologies. Advances in the technologies have helped in improving the effectiveness of SCADA. One such recent technological development is Internet and the World Wide Web. The operational and commercial needs of the power industry require information systems to not only perform traditiona...

The deregulation of the electric industry in the United States opens the power market to competition. Buyers and sellers of electric power will be competing for limited resources. Although regulators will attempt to limit such activity, when large amounts of money are at stake, the participants have incentives to engage in destabilizing behavior. The goal of this study is to model agent driven ...

The energy markets deregulation coupled with the rapid spread of unpredictable energy sources power units are stressing the necessity of improving traditional power plants flexibility. Cyclic operation guarantees high profits in the short term but, in the medium-long time, cause a lifetime reduction due to thermo-mechanical fatigue, creep and corrosion. In this context, Combined Cycle Power Pla...