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    Urban power grids are operating closer to capacity limits due to increasing electricity demands and lack of investment. The integration of renewable energy also increases complexity. Recent blackouts in major cities highlight the need for an intelligent control system to allow power grids to self-heal from disturbances. A self-healing grid can isolate and restore faulty elements with little human intervention. It requires infrastructure, measurements, communication, and new control strategies, which are currently lacking in urban power management.

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    Urban power grids are operating closer to capacity limits due to increasing electricity demands and lack of investment. The integration of renewable energy also increases complexity. Recent blackouts in major cities highlight the need for an intelligent control system to allow power grids to self-heal from disturbances. A self-healing grid can isolate and restore faulty elements with little human intervention. It requires infrastructure, measurements, communication, and new control strategies, which are currently lacking in urban power management.

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    Urban power grids are operating closer to capacity limits due to increasing electricity demands and lack of investment. The integration of renewable energy also increases complexity. Recent blackouts in major cities highlight the need for an intelligent control system to allow power grids to self-heal from disturbances. A self-healing grid can isolate and restore faulty elements with little human intervention. It requires infrastructure, measurements, communication, and new control strategies, which are currently lacking in urban power management.

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    The Control and Analysis of Self-Healing

    Urban Power Grid


    With the rapid economy growth, demands for electricity have been increasing dramatic,
    especially in developing countries. Due to the lack of new investments in generation and
    transmission networks, many urban power grids (UPGs) operate closer and closer to their limits.
    In addition, the increase in the penetration of distribution energy resources (DERs), especially
    renewable energy, such as solar and wind generating sources, in UPG makes the operations of
    UPGs more complex. Recently, many power system blackouts have taken place successively in
    big cities of various countries. These facts strongly remind an urgent need to design an intelligent
    control system to allow UPG to be self-healed when facing power system disturbances.

    A smart grid should be able to heal itself after a power system event; it should enable active
    customer participation, resist attacks, provide power quality for the 21 st century needs,
    accommodate all generation and storage options, enable markets, and optimize asset utilization
    and operate efficiently. Among them, self-heal is the key characteristic. Some literatures also
    called a smart grid as a self-healing grid. “Self-healing” was also interpreted as an engineering
    design that enables the problematic elements of a system to be isolated and, ideally, restored to
    normal operation with little or no human intervention. It is comprised of four sub controls, which
    includes emergency control, restorative control, corrective control and preventive control. The
    multi agent system (MAS) technology is employed to design the entire self-healing system. For
    this system, three layers, the inner structure and the communication method are proposed.

    The modern self-healing UPG should perform continuous, online self-assessment to detect
    existing or emerging problems, and initiate immediate corresponding responses to avoid power
    grids in the high-risk condition. It needs fundamental supports from a variety of up-to-date
    hardware infrastructure, advanced measurements and communication techniques, new power
    relay protection scheme, and so on. The most important one is the coordination and control
    strategies, which are relatively weak in the current urban electric power management system.
    Block Diagram

    Communication
    Port
    C.T

    MCU
    BREAKER

    LOAD

    Transient faults

     momentary tree contact


     bird or other animal contact
     lightning strike
     conductor clash

    Passive Faults

     Overloading - leading to overheating of insulation (deteriorating quality, Reduced life and


    ultimate failure).

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