Enhancing Operational Awareness of Distribution System Operators with a Semi-Autonomous Intelligent Grid Control Suite

Abstract

A semi-autonomous power system control suite is presented. The so called Intelligent GridOperator (InGO) enables the supervision, monitoring and optimization of LV- and MV-networks in a distributed and autonomous way, while it further enhances operational awareness of DSO-dispatchers in the control room. InGO system utilizes a flexible direct data link to the control room that allows both systems, InGO as well as the control centre, to exchange topological data, measurements, schedules, forecasts etc. Thus, manual data management for the operation of decentral controllers is minimized. As InGO may operate in various operation modes (e.g. semi-autonomous, fully-autonomous, assistive), dispatchers are enabled to set the decentral control system in the desired operation mode manually. The system architecture and exemplary use cases are presented.