Techniques are disclosed herein for improved power meter disconnect switch operation, which may include opening and/or closing of the disconnect switch. In particular, for reasons such as reduction of electromechanical stress on the disconnect switch, the disconnect switch may be operated based, at least in part, on a voltage at the load side of the disconnect switch. For example, in some cases, the disconnect switch may be opened slightly before a zero crossover of a waveform corresponding to the load side voltage. As another example, in some cases, the disconnect switch may be closed slightly before or slightly after a zero crossover of a waveform corresponding to the load side voltage.

A management device includes at least one processor communicatively coupled to at least one energy resource controller controlling at least one energy resource and to at least one deferrable load controller controlling power to at least one deferrable load. The is configured to receive an indication, determined based on a frequency value of an electrical network and a nominal frequency value, that a frequency anomaly event has occurred. Responsive to receiving the indication that the frequency anomaly event has occurred, the processor is also configured to determine, for at least one of the energy resource and the deferrable load, based on the frequency value, the nominal frequency value, and a power value of the electrical network, a respective power command, and cause at least one of the at least one energy resource and the at least one deferrable load to modify operation based on the respective power command.

When some failure occurs in the case where power interchange is performed among grids, an alternate route is searched at high speed in consideration of a deficiency/excess amount of power. A power network system has a plurality of power routers (1-7), power transmission lines (100-111) connecting the power routers, a controller (8), a communication network (10), and communication lines (11). The controller (8) obtains a reception electric energy and a transmission electric energy in the power routers (1-7), detects a failure due to a fault in, for example, the power router (4), and searches for an alternate route to solve deficiency/excess power caused by the failure occurrence. Concretely, an alternate route is searched while following a power router having excessive power as a root node by a breadth first search, and transmitting the deficiency/excess power and an allowable power transmission capacity in each of the power routers to an adjacent power router. A control instruction related to interchange power is output via the alternate route.

The present invention monitors an electric power system using a time-series measurement value including abnormality. An electric power system monitoring device is provided with: a storage unit that stores facility information indicating a position relationship of a plurality of measurement sites in an electric power system; a reception unit that receives time-series measurement information measured by a measurement device disposed at each of the plurality of measurement sites; and a computation unit that acquires an electrical distance between the plurality of measurement sites on the basis of the facility information, classifies the plurality of measurement sites into at least one measurement site group on the basis of the electrical distance, extracts, with respect to each of the measurement sites in the measurement site group, a frequency component of electric power fluctuation from the measurement information, selects, with respect to a first frequency component which is a frequency component of a first measurement site in the measurement site group, a second frequency component which is a frequency component of a second measurement site in the measurement site group, and calculates a similarity between the first frequency component and the second frequency component.

A multi-node synchronous on-site test method, the method comprising: using GPS time as time reference, and conducting synchronous on-site tests on the devices to be tested and systems distributed at different places at an appointed time; controlling the synchronous phase control simulation devices distributed at multiple nodes via a synchronous test control center; within a uniform time section, synchronously outputting secondary side AC simulation signals, and simulating various actual operating conditions, thus achieving the detection of the monitoring and control performances of various dynamic monitoring and control systems, and ensuring the normal functions of the systems. The method of the present invention is able to conduct multi-node dynamic simulation test with synchronized GPS time, and achieves the detection of large-area multi-node monitoring and control systems. The present invention is suitable for the test of a wide area measurement system (WAMS) function, the simulation test of a damping control function, the simulation test of transiently stable state analysis and control functions, the simulation test of voltage stabilization and control functions, the simulation test of an islanding control function, the simulation test of wide area protection system functions and the like.

Fault isolation and service restoration in an electrical grid are provided. An approach for receiving a notification message including a state of an electrical component on an electrical grid, and determining, by a computing system, a command message including at least one action to take in response to the state of the electrical component, is described. The approach further includes sending the command message to at least one of the electrical component and other electrical components on the electrical grid.

A method for reducing aggregate power cost that includes determining an end device power consumption profile for each of a plurality of end devices, storing the end device power consumption profiles in a switching device configured to determine a desired power flow timing for each of the plurality of end devices, determining an optimal rate period with the switching device, determining, with the switching device, the desired power flow timing for each of the plurality of end devices such that a power consumption of the plurality of end devices is preferably within the optimal rate period, and controlling, via the control device, the plurality of end devices such that the desired power flow timing is substantially obtained, thereby reducing aggregate cost per kWhr of the plurality of end devices.

Provided is a device for transmitting wireless power. The wireless power transmitting device includes a communication unit, a power receiving unit, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain, through the communication unit, communication establishment information and location information associated with a wireless charging area from a tag device, establish, through the communication unit, communication with a wireless power transmitting device based on the communication establishment information, and control to transmit the location information to the wireless power transmitting device. The power receiving unit wirelessly receives the power from the wireless power transmitting device after the communication unit transmits the location information.

Prediction of electrical power system behavior, and related systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed. A controller includes a data storage device configured to store model data for time points of a time period of operation. The controller also includes a processor configured to determine current data for time points of a current time period of operation. The current time period corresponds to an early portion of the time period of the model data. The controller is also configured to fit the model data to the current data to produce predicted data, a future portion of the predicted data corresponding to time points occurring after the early portion of the time period of the model data. The controller is further configured to determine values for a set of control variables to effectuate a change to operation of the electrical power system based on the future portion of the predicted data.

A system, having a controller, with a 3-phase measurement sensor, wherein the 3-phase measurement sensor is connected at least for current measurement to a low-voltage feeder of a secondary unit substation, and wherein a distribution network with producers and/or consumers is connected to the low-voltage feeder. The controller and the 3-phase measurement sensor are arranged in the secondary unit substation. The controller has a data interface for detecting electrical measurement values of the connected 3-phase measurement sensor with associated timestamp. The controller has a communication interface for connection to a higher-level unit outside of the secondary unit substation. The controller has a first memory area in a local memory for storing the measurement values with associated timestamp.