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SUMMARY:Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loads - Ant
 onio De Paola\, University of Bath
DTSTART:20181129T140000Z
DTEND:20181129T150000Z
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CONTACT:Alberto Padoan
DESCRIPTION:As a result of environmental concerns and technological develo
 pments\, power systems are gradually transitioning towards a smart grid pa
 radigm\, adopting distributed and scalable solutions to deal with rising l
 evels of complexity and uncertainty. A key element of this transition is t
 he increasing diffusion of new flexible loads\, such as electric vehicles 
 and “smart” appliances. It has become crucial to properly coordinate t
 hese new entities\, ensuring safe and reliable system operation and\, at t
 he same time\, aligning the interest of the individual users with the over
 all social welfare.\n\nThis talk presents novel price-based control strate
 gies to achieve these objectives. On the basis of an aggregative game form
 ulation that considers the loads as rational competing agents\, Lyapunov s
 tability tools are used to ensure convergence and optimality of the propos
 ed control schemes\, which are based on iterative better-response updates.
  The state of the art is advanced by extending these results to more gener
 al modelling frameworks\, explicitly accounting for grid topology\, operat
 ional constraints\, dynamic environments and provision of ancillary servic
 es.
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room 12
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