Low-Voltage Distribution Network Impedances Identification Based on Smart Meter Data
For grid operators, it enables accurate real-time network models to improve control and optimization under high renewable penetration.
The paper develops data-driven methods for estimating line parameters in low-voltage distribution networks using smart meter data, achieving fast, recursive, and scalable algorithms that can run in a decentralized manner.
Under conditions of high penetration of renewables, the low-voltage (LV) distribution network needs to be carefully managed. In such a scenario, an accurate real-time low-voltage power network model is an important prerequisite, which opens up the possibility for application of many advanced network control and optimisation methods thus providing improved power flow balancing, reduced maintenance costs, and enhanced reliability and security of a grid. Smart meters serve as a source of information in LV networks and allow for accurate measurements at almost every node, which makes it advantageous to use data driven methods. In this paper, we formulate a non-linear and non-convex problem, solve it efficiently, and propose a number of fully smart meter data driven methods for line parameters estimation. Our algorithms are fast, recursive in data, scale linearly with the number of nodes, and can be executed in a decentralised manner by running small algorithms inside each smart meter. The performance of these algorithms is demonstrated for different measurement accuracy scenarios through simulations.