Towards Improving Resilience of Smart Urban Electricity Networks by Interactively Assessing Potential Microgrids

Eng Tseng Lau, Kok Keong Chai, Yue Chen, Alexandr Vasenev

2017

Abstract

When a city adds a renewable generation to improve its carbon footprint, this step towards a greener city can be a step towards a smarter city. Strategical positioning of new urban electricity components makes the city more resilient to electricity outages. Money and resilience are two conflicting goals in this case. In case of blackouts, renewable generation, other than distributed combustion generations, can serve critical demand to essential city nodes, such as hospitals, water purification facilities, and police stations. Not the last, the city level stakeholders might be interested in envisioning monetary saving related to introducing a renewable. To provide decision makers with resilience and monetary information, it is needed to analyze the impact of introducing the renewable into the grid. This paper introduces a novel tool suitable for this purpose and reports on the validation efforts. The outcomes indicate that predicted outcomes of two alternative points of introducing renewables into the grid can be analyzed with the help of the tool and ultimately be meaningfully compared.

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Tseng Lau E., Keong Chai K., Chen Y. and Vasenev A. (2017). Towards Improving Resilience of Smart Urban Electricity Networks by Interactively Assessing Potential Microgrids . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-241-7, pages 352-359. DOI: 10.5220/0006377803520359


in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens17,
author={Eng Tseng Lau and Kok Keong Chai and Yue Chen and Alexandr Vasenev},
title={Towards Improving Resilience of Smart Urban Electricity Networks by Interactively Assessing Potential Microgrids},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2017},
pages={352-359},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006377803520359},
isbn={978-989-758-241-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Towards Improving Resilience of Smart Urban Electricity Networks by Interactively Assessing Potential Microgrids
SN - 978-989-758-241-7
AU - Tseng Lau E.
AU - Keong Chai K.
AU - Chen Y.
AU - Vasenev A.
PY - 2017
SP - 352
EP - 359
DO - 10.5220/0006377803520359