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voltage support, control network power
flows, and connect asynchronous grids
or intact islands within the larger power
system. FerC order 1000 removes
arrangements that protect the right of
first refusal for incumbent transmission
providers and would likely increase the
future applications of VSCs.
"the healing touch: tools and Challenges for Smart Grid restoration," by
Shanshan Liu, yunhe hou, Chen-Ching
Liu, and robin Podmore, provides a background on blackouts and their impacts
and the use of smart restoration technologies. these include physical improvements to the power system that will
reduce restoration time while maintaining
system integrity, such as technologies that
improve wide-area situational awareness
and decision support tools for power system operators. the application of system
recovery technologies can help operators
restore the system under the wide variety
of unpredictable power system operating
conditions that may be further complicated by the high penetration of variable
energy resources and demand response.
the restoration process for distribution systems has continued to evolve and
improve as summarized in "A Changing
Map: Four Decades of Service restoration at Alabama Power" by G. Larry
Clark. Situational awareness and the
efficient and reliable restoration of
the distribution system have improved
through the application of distribution
automation, system control and data
acquisition, and desktop computing. the
article also discusses improvements in
the human-machine interface achieved
in the control room.
Microgrids have the ability to provide continuous electric service to loads
following outages of the distribution
system. they can also assist with the restoration of the power system by energizing portions of the distribution system,
which ultimately are resynchronized
with the transmission system. "only
Connect: Microgrids for Distribution
System restoration" by Liang Che,
Mohammad Khodayar, and Mohammad
Shahidehpour discusses the need for
microgrids and how they can improve
the reliability of service to loads.
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