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Application of AI techniques in monitoring and operation of power systems

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In recent years, the artificial intelligence (AI) technology is becoming more and more popular in many areas due to its amazing performance. However, the application of AI techniques in power systems is still in its infancy. Therefore, in this paper, the application potentials of AI technologies in power systems will be discussed by mainly focusing on the power system operation and monitoring. For the power system operation, the problems, the demands, and the possible applications of AI techniques in control, optimization, and decision making problems are discussed. Subsequently, the fault detection and stability analysis problems in power system monitoring are studied. At the end of the paper, a case study to use the neural network (NN) for power flow analysis is provided as a simple example to demonstrate the viability of AI techniques in solving power system problems.

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This work was supported by State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) Science and Technology Project (No. SGTJDK00DWJS-1700060).

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  1. University of Denver, Denver, CO, 80210, USA

    David Wenzhong Gao & Qiao Li

  2. China State Key Laboratory of Power System, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    David Wenzhong Gao

  3. State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company, Tianjin, 300010, China

    Qiang Wang, Xiaojing Yang & Zhigang Huang

  4. China State Key Laboratory of Power System, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Fang Zhang

  5. State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Research Institute, Tianjin, 300384, China

    Shiqian Ma

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences (SKL-MCCS, CASIA), Beijing, 100190, China

    Xiaoyan Gong & Fei-Yue Wang

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Gao, D.W., Wang, Q., Zhang, F. et al. Application of AI techniques in monitoring and operation of power systems. Front. Energy 13, 71–85 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-018-0589-4

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