Prof Vahid Vahidinasab's Outputs (87)

Peer-to-Peer Local Energy Markets: A Low-Cost Flexible Solution for Energizing Sustainable Smart Cities (2021)
Book Chapter

The proliferation of the distributed energy resources (DERs) into the demand side of the grid has led to the creation of a new agent, called prosumer at the distribution level. Prosumers are active agents that are able to produce, consume, and store... Read More about Peer-to-Peer Local Energy Markets: A Low-Cost Flexible Solution for Energizing Sustainable Smart Cities.

Forecast-Based Consensus Control for DC Microgrids Using Distributed Long Short-Term Memory Deep Learning Models (2021)
Journal Article

In a microgrid, renewable energy sources (RES) exhibit stochastic behavior, which affects the microgrid continuous operation. Normally, energy storage systems (ESSs) are installed on the main branches of the microgrids to compensate for the load-supp... Read More about Forecast-Based Consensus Control for DC Microgrids Using Distributed Long Short-Term Memory Deep Learning Models.

Coordinated scheduling of energy storage systems as a fast reserve provider (2021)
Journal Article

The need for the operational reserve is growing due to the increase of variability and intermittency in both generation and demand sides. Hence, energy storage systems (ESSs) are considered as an alternative source of the reserve, while conventional... Read More about Coordinated scheduling of energy storage systems as a fast reserve provider.

A stochastic framework for secure reconfiguration of active distribution networks (2021)
Journal Article

Automatic reconfiguration is one of the key actions in self-healing distribution networks.In these networks, after detecting and isolating the faulted portion, an automatic reconfiguration procedure is performed to restore the maximum possible affected... Read More about A stochastic framework for secure reconfiguration of active distribution networks.

A privacy‐preserving approach to day‐ahead TSO‐DSO coordinated stochastic scheduling for energy and reserve (2021)
Journal Article

Proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) calls for a coordinated transmission and distribution (T&D) scheduling at the day-ahead stage. The problem becomes more complicated dealing with the variability of stochastic parameters. Also, priv... Read More about A privacy‐preserving approach to day‐ahead TSO‐DSO coordinated stochastic scheduling for energy and reserve.

Multilayer event‐based distributed control system for DC microgrids with non‐uniform delays and directional communication (2021)
Journal Article

The secondary control layer of microgrids is often modelled as a multi-agent distributed system, coordinated based on consensus protocols. Convergence time of consensus algorithm significantly affects transient stability of microgrids, due to changes... Read More about Multilayer event‐based distributed control system for DC microgrids with non‐uniform delays and directional communication.

Control and Management of Active Buildings (2021)
Book Chapter

The power network is becoming increasingly intermittent as the contribution from renewable energy generation rises. To maintain stability and functionality of the power network, storage of renewable energies and demand-side control techniques are req... Read More about Control and Management of Active Buildings.

Operation and Control of a Population of Active Buildings at Network Level (2021)
Book Chapter

Smart grid control and management is a growing research area that affects the global goals of net-zero emissions, increased renewable energy generation, and efficient energy management. Active buildings are the building blocks of the smart grid of th... Read More about Operation and Control of a Population of Active Buildings at Network Level.

Participation of Active Buildings in Peer-to-Peer and Local Transactive Energy Markets (2021)
Book Chapter

In recent years, great environmental concerns have led to the transition of the energy sector by integrating distributed energy resources (DER) into the power system. Hence, the former passive buildings of the network are turning into active building... Read More about Participation of Active Buildings in Peer-to-Peer and Local Transactive Energy Markets.

Value of regional constraint management services of vector-bridging systems in a heavily constrained network (2021)
Journal Article

While a lot of countries put renewable energy sources at the heart of their decarbonization strategies with directed incentive mechanisms, the variability of the renewable energy sources, remains a major challenge for electricity system operators in... Read More about Value of regional constraint management services of vector-bridging systems in a heavily constrained network.

Power system resilience assessment considering critical infrastructure resilience approaches and government policymaker criteria (2021)
Journal Article

The electric power system is one of the most important critical infrastructures of a country. Recently, the number of natural and man-made disasters is increased, which can impose extensive damages and costs to the power system. A resilient power sys... Read More about Power system resilience assessment considering critical infrastructure resilience approaches and government policymaker criteria.

Tree-Partitioning as an Emergency Measure to Contain Cascading Line Failures (2021)
Journal Article

This paper proposes to replace controlled islanding, which is a defense mechanism against cascading failures, by tree partitioning whereby some of the tie-lines connecting the clusters are still connected in such a way that the cluster-level graph f... Read More about Tree-Partitioning as an Emergency Measure to Contain Cascading Line Failures.

A System-of-Systems Planning Platform for Enabling Flexibility Provision at Distribution Level (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims to study the distribution expansion planning (DEP) problem considering flexibility providers. In this study, demand response providers (DRPs) are introduced as the flexibility service providers, which will play an important role bes... Read More about A System-of-Systems Planning Platform for Enabling Flexibility Provision at Distribution Level.

An Enhanced Contingency-Based Model for Joint Energy and Reserve Markets Operation by Considering Wind and Energy Storage Systems (2021)
Journal Article

This article presents a contingency-based stochastic security-constrained unit commitment to address the integration of wind power producers to the joint energy and reserve markets. The model considers ancillary services as a solution to cope with th... Read More about An Enhanced Contingency-Based Model for Joint Energy and Reserve Markets Operation by Considering Wind and Energy Storage Systems.

Arbitrage Strategy of Renewable-Based Microgrids via Peer-to-Peer Energy-Trading (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper, an arbitrage strategy is proposed for renewable-based microgrids (MGs) to overcome the volatile behavior of renewable energy sources (RESs) such as photovoltaic and wind in a newly emerged business space in which peer-to-peer (P2P) ene... Read More about Arbitrage Strategy of Renewable-Based Microgrids via Peer-to-Peer Energy-Trading.

Guest Editorial: On the role of energy storage systems in the grid of the future: Selected papers from the 2019 UK Energy Storage Conference (2021)
Journal Article

This Special Issue is a collection of selected papers originating
from the 2019 UK Energy Storage Conference (UKES) taken
place on the 3rd–5th September 2019 in the Frederick
Douglass Building at Newcastle Helix, Newcastle University
and supporte... Read More about Guest Editorial: On the role of energy storage systems in the grid of the future: Selected papers from the 2019 UK Energy Storage Conference.

Emerging Technologies for the Energy Systems of the Future (2021)
Journal Article

The way the world gets its energy is undergoing a rapid transition, driven by both the increased urgency of decarbonizing energy systems and the plummeting costs of renewable energy technologies. The road to the future will not be easy, and indeed, n... Read More about Emerging Technologies for the Energy Systems of the Future.

Energy Management Systems for Microgrids (2021)
Book Chapter

Energy management system (EMS) has a vital role in the operation of a microgrid (MG) in the hourly or minute-by-minute time-scales. EMS coordinates with the other systems such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), maintenance scheduling, outage... Read More about Energy Management Systems for Microgrids.

Techno-economic-environmental evaluation framework for integrated gas and electricity distribution networks considering impact of different storage configurations (2021)
Journal Article

This paper presents an evaluation framework for Techno-Economic-Environmental (TEE) performance of the Integrated Gas and Electricity Distribution Networks (IGEDNs). The proposed framework is based on a coupled gas and electric load flow model, facil... Read More about Techno-economic-environmental evaluation framework for integrated gas and electricity distribution networks considering impact of different storage configurations.

Assessment of energy storage systems as a reserve provider in stochastic network constrained unit commitment (2021)
Journal Article

Recently, the provision of the reserve from energy storage systems (ESSs) is introduced as a source for ancillary services to address the uncertainties of renewable power generations. The performance of ESSs is analysed while they are applied as a pr... Read More about Assessment of energy storage systems as a reserve provider in stochastic network constrained unit commitment.