Real-Time Distributed Control of Battery Energy Storage Systems for Security Constrained DC-OPF

The introduction of fast-response battery energy storage system (BESS) provides a number of advantages to address the new challenges of smart grids, including improving the reliability and security of the power grids. This paper proposes a real-time distributed control algorithm to the corrective security-constrained DC optimal power flow problem for transmission network. The objective is to minimize the adjustment of the BESSs, while maintaining the supply-demand balance and ensuring no security constraint violations in the post-contingency state for the short-term period. Comparing to the conventional centralized methods, only simple local computation and information exchange with neighbors are required to update the local control signal, which leads to fast response of the BESSs to alleviate the impact of the transmission line outage. Real-time simulation results of the modified 6-bus and 24-bus systems demonstrate that the dynamic performances of proposed distributed algorithm satisfy standard requirements and indicate its applicability for practical power grid.