Communication and Control in Electric Power Systems

MOHAMMAD SHAHIDEHPOUR, PhD, is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Director of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he has served in various administrative positions, including Dean of the Graduate College and Associate Vice President for research. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant to the electric power industry. He is the author of more than 250 technical papers as well as three books on power system optimization and energy scheduling. Dr. Shahidehpour is a Fellow of IEEE. YAOYU WANG, PhD, is a senior research scientist in the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has twelve years of industrial and academic experience in power systems computation, optimization, and control; power market analysis; and EMS/DMS applications, development, and integration. He was a recipient of a research fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and was a guest research scientist of Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Wang is a Senior Member of IEEE.

• Preface xix 1. Introduction 12. Parallel and Distributed Processing of Power Systems 473. Information System for Control Centers 1014. Common Information Model and Middleware for Integration 1355. Parallel and Distributed Load Flow Computation 1776. Parallel and Distributed Load Flow of Distribution Systems 2097. Parallel and Distributed State Estimation 2358. Distributed Power System Security Analysis 2659. Hierarchical and Distributed Control of Voltage/VAR 30710. Transmission Congestion Management Based on Multi-Agent Theory 34911. Integration, Control, and Operation of Distributed Generation 39112. Special Topics in Power System Information System 439Appendix A. Example System Data 477Appendix B. Measurement Data for Distributed State Estimation 483Appendix C. IEEE-30 Bus System Data 493Appendix D. Acronyms 497Bibliography 503Index 531