A grid power configuration may provide a reliable, efficient, inexpensive and environmentally conscious power source to a site, for example, a remote site such as a well services environment. Grid power may be provided for one or more operations at the site by coupling a main breaker to a switchgear unit coupled to one or more loads. The switchgear unit may be coupled to the main breaker via a main power distribution unit and may also be coupled to one or more loads. At least one of a grid power unit and a switchgear unit may be coupled to the main breaker via the main power distribution unit and may also be coupled to one or more additional loads. A control center may be communicatively coupled to the main breaker or any one or more other components to control one or more operations of the grid power configuration.

A method for making a spatio-temporal combined optimal scheduling strategy of a mobile energy storage (MES) system includes: inputting data of a power system, a traffic system, and an MES system; setting a time interval, and initializing a time interval counter; inputting real-time fault, traffic, and MES data; and performing rolling optimization and solving, and delivering regulation decision instructions of the MES system, till a fault is removed. The core of the present disclosure is to propose a spatio-temporal combined optimal model of the MES system to describe spatio-temporal coupling statuses of an energy storage vehicle, a traffic network, and a power distribution network. The present disclosure provides guidance for an optimal scheduling decision of the MES system by properly regulating a traveling path and charging and discharging power of the MES system, thereby supporting high-reliability operation of the power distribution network.

The disclosure provides a method for fast reconfiguration of power supply grid in tens of milliseconds after power grid failure. The master station of fast reconfiguration of power grid concentrates the network status information from the client stations at transformer substations or power plants, and compares it with the built-in control strategy table which deals with possible faults. When an expected power gird disconnection fault is detected, the pre-start switch-on instruction is sent to the client stations with multiple breakers which can reconnect the grid. When the fault is cleared, the client stations shall identify the fault clearing time according to the local information, and send the instruction of synchronous switch-on to the corresponding local breakers which can reconnect the separated grids. At the same time, the master station independently monitors the removal of the fault, and sends the backup switch-on signal with synchronism check to the corresponding breakers which can reconnect the separated grids. Based on the above mechanism, the disconnected grid can be reconnected within 150 ms after disconnecting. After the interconnection of the grid is restored, the breakers that form the electromagnetic ring network switch off.

An electrical power system for a watercraft including a first electrical power plant configured to operate in a variable frequency mode to output variable frequency power to a first electrical network and a fixed frequency mode to output fixed frequency power to a second electrical network. There is a first electrical load including a first high temperature superconductor (HTS) motor connected to the first electrical network and a second electrical load connected to a second electrical network. A controller selectively connects the first electrical power plant to the first electrical network and operates the first electrical power plant in a variable frequency mode to output variable frequency power to power the first HTS motor and selectively connects the first electrical power plant to the second electrical network and operates the first electrical power plant in a fixed frequency mode to output fixed frequency power to power the second electrical load.

A versatile intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) method for a distribution grid integrating renewable energy resources is described. Advanced signal processing techniques extract useful features from recorded three-phase current signals, which are input to a multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLP-NN) to diagnose i.e., to detect, classify, identify the feeder branch, and locate the faults. Once a fault is detected, classified and located, a grid operator may adjust grid parameters or dispatch a technician to correct the fault. The IFD method is independent of load demand, renewable energy generation, and fault information (resistance and inception angle) uncertainties, as well as measurement noise.

An electric utility distribution system in which power is supplied by a distribution transformer through an electric utility meter including an apparatus for detecting the presence of a back-feed voltage source connected to the load. The apparatus includes a virtual neutral established in the electric utility meter at ground potential and a remote switch that is opened to interrupt electric power flow from the distribution transformer to the load. The apparatus further includes a balanced voltage divider circuit including a connection point established between a pair of series connected resistive elements. In addition, the apparatus includes a detection circuit configured to monitor a voltage signal at the connection point to detect a back-feed voltage source connected between a neutral conductor of the electric utility distribution system and one of a first or second power line at the load.

A system for providing electric motor control to a plurality of motor loads includes one or more motor controllers arranged to drive one or more of the loads, switching means configured to selectively provide electrical connections between the one or more motor controllers and the loads. and a controller arranged to configure the switching means to connect one or more of the motor controllers to one or more of the loads in response to a control signal. The number of motor controllers is less than the number of motor loads to be controlled.

In an uninterruptible power supply apparatus, AC current, which includes a feedback component having a value corresponding to deviation between terminal-to-terminal voltage of a capacitor and reference voltage, and a feed forward component obtained by multiplying load current by a gain, is passed into a converter such that the terminal-to-terminal voltage of the capacitor becomes the reference voltage. The gain is set to a first gain in an iverter power feed mode and a bypass power feed mode, and the gain is set to a second gain smaller than the first gain in a switching period of switching between the inverter power feed mode and the bypass power feed mode, to prevent the terminal-to-terminal voltage of the capacitor from exceeding an upper limit voltage in a lap power feed mode.

A local power supply system having a grid transfer point for the connection of an energy supply grid has a first transmission line for transmitting electrical energy from the grid transfer point to a first terminal for connecting an arrangement of consumers, and a second transmission line for transmitting electrical energy between the grid transfer point and a second terminal for connecting an arrangement of energy stores. A first disconnector is arranged in the first transition line between the grid transfer point and the first terminal, and a second disconnector is arranged in the second transmission line between the grid transfer point and the second terminal. A coupling device, which electrically connects the first terminal and the second terminal, has a first switch and a second switch connected in series thereto, wherein a coupling element is arranged between the two switches connected in series, which coupling element has a grounding apparatus, a phase connection apparatus, a neutral conductor connection apparatus, a connection to a diesel generator and/or an apparatus for generating a neutral conductor potential. The disclosure also relates to a method for operating such a system.

A power conversion system includes N power converters. Each power converter includes an input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal. Each of the N power converters receives a DC power through the input terminal. The first output terminal of a first power converter and the second output terminal of an N-th power converter are connected in parallel to form an N-th total output terminal. The first output terminal of an i-th power converter and the second output terminal of an (i−1)-th power converter are connected in parallel to form an (i−1)-th total output terminal. The two input terminals of the load are connected with two total output terminals of N total output terminals. A (2k−1)-th power converter is connected with a first power source. A 2k-th power converter is connected with a second power source. The redundancy of the power conversion system can be achieved.