Control, Optimization, Security, and Selfhealing of Benchmark Power SystemsThe views expressed here are those of the authors, Momoh (on leave from Howard University), and Zivi and not the official views of NSF and U.S. Naval Academy, USA
This chapter presents several challenging and benchmark problems from the field of power systems. The first benchmark is the IEEE 118 Bus commercial terrestrial Electrical Power System (EPS). The second benchmark represents a finite inertia hybrid ac/dc shipboard Integrated Power System (IPS). The analytic utility and Navy benchmark models and their respective simulations have been experimentally validated and have been used to determine system reliability, reconfigurability, stability, and security. The challenge is to provide novel control and optimization methods and tools to improve the quality of service despite natural and hostile disruptions under uncertain operating conditions. Along with these problems several smaller problems are also presented which demonstrate different aspects of the challenges of power system control. The purpose of this chapter is formulation of problems that ADP methods could be applied to, therefore the emphasis is more on detailed problem description and simulation, not on any particular solution.