TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspectives on Future Power System Control Centers for Energy Transition
AU - Marot, Antoine
AU - Kelly, Adrian
AU - Naglic, Matija
AU - Barbesant, Vincent
AU - Cremer, Jochen
AU - Stefanov, Alexandru
AU - Viebahn, Jan
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Today's power systems are seeing a paradigm shift under the energy transition, sparkled by the electrification of demand, digitalisation of systems, and an increasing share of decarbonated power generation. Most of these changes have a direct impact on their control centers, forcing them to handle weather-based energy resources, new interconnections with neighbouring transmission networks, more markets, active distribution networks, micro-grids, and greater amounts of available data. Unfortunately, these changes have translated during the past decade to small, incremental changes, mostly centered on hardware, software, and human factors. We assert that more transformative changes are needed, especially regarding humancentered design approaches, to enable control room operators to manage the future power system. This paper discusses the evolution of operators towards continuous operation planners, monitoring complex time horizons thanks to adequate real-time automation. Reviewing upcoming challenges as well as emerging technologies for power systems, we present our vision of a new evolutionary architecture for control centers, both at backend and frontend levels. We propose a unified hypervision scheme based on structured decision-making concepts, providing operators with proactive, collaborative, and effective decision support.
AB - Today's power systems are seeing a paradigm shift under the energy transition, sparkled by the electrification of demand, digitalisation of systems, and an increasing share of decarbonated power generation. Most of these changes have a direct impact on their control centers, forcing them to handle weather-based energy resources, new interconnections with neighbouring transmission networks, more markets, active distribution networks, micro-grids, and greater amounts of available data. Unfortunately, these changes have translated during the past decade to small, incremental changes, mostly centered on hardware, software, and human factors. We assert that more transformative changes are needed, especially regarding humancentered design approaches, to enable control room operators to manage the future power system. This paper discusses the evolution of operators towards continuous operation planners, monitoring complex time horizons thanks to adequate real-time automation. Reviewing upcoming challenges as well as emerging technologies for power systems, we present our vision of a new evolutionary architecture for control centers, both at backend and frontend levels. We propose a unified hypervision scheme based on structured decision-making concepts, providing operators with proactive, collaborative, and effective decision support.
KW - Artificial intelligence
KW - cyber-physical system
KW - decision-making
KW - digital architecture
KW - digital twin
KW - energy transition
KW - hypervision
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128609501&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.35833/MPCE.2021.000673
DO - 10.35833/MPCE.2021.000673
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128609501
VL - 10
SP - 328
EP - 344
JO - Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE)
JF - Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE)
SN - 2196-5420
IS - 2
ER -