Collaborative Research: Planning for Uncertainty in Coupled Water-Power Distribution Networks

合作研究：水电耦合配电网的不确定性规划

• 批准号: 2222097
• 负责人: Vijay Gupta
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222097&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Planning; Uncertainty; Coupled

The goal of this project is to develop approaches for the joint operation of coupled municipal drinking water and electric power distribution networks at the physical scale of neighborhoods or cities. Electricity-consuming water network equipment such as water pumps can provide flexibility to electricity networks by shifting pumping load. Flexibility provided by the water network to the power network increases power network reliability, in turn increasing water network reliability. Further, increased flexibility in power network operation reduces operational costs and can help electric power distribution network incorporate higher penetrations of renewable energy resources. The project will develop operational planning and real-time control strategies for coupled water-power networks under uncertainty, develop economic contracts for flexibility, assess network resilience to new operational/control strategies and economic mechanisms, and update these new approaches to maintain or improve upon current levels of resilience. This research will help improve the economics, environmental impact, reliability, and resilience of coupled water-power systems. Further, the research will have practical impacts through collaboration with electric and water utility partners. The team will disseminate their results to the research community and practitioners, develop curriculum materials, and provide multidisciplinary research experiences for underrepresented graduate and undergraduate students.The project will contribute to the fields of optimization, economic contract design, resilience modeling, electric power systems, and water networks. Task 1 will develop approaches for advancing the state-of-the-art in coupled water-power network modeling and solving the challenging stochastic optimization problems that arise in the coupled operation of the two networks. Task 2 will develop approaches to design economic contracts to ensure coordination of the water and electric companies and incentivization of the customers. Task 3 will advance the modeling and analysis of equity in who faces infrastructure vulnerability from hazards. While previous work developed a general framework for measuring inequity in the loss of essential services across a population, this has not been integrated with detailed infrastructure performance models. This project will make this critical linkage, advancing the ability to consider potential inequities in vulnerability that may inadvertently arise from interventions intended to improve system performance. This is critical to avoid having negative, unintended consequences on vulnerable sub-populations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的目标是开发在社区或城市的物理规模上联合运营市政饮用水和配电网络的方法。水泵等耗电水网设备可以通过转移抽水负载为电网提供灵活性。水网为电网提供的灵活性提高了电网的可靠性，进而提高了水网的可靠性。此外，提高电网运营的灵活性可降低运营成本，并有助于配电网络提高可再生能源的渗透率。该项目将为不确定性下的耦合水电网络制定运行规划和实时控制策略，制定灵活性经济合同，评估网络对新运行/控制策略和经济机制的弹性，并更新这些新方法以维持或改进当前的复原力水平。这项研究将有助于提高水电耦合系统的经济性、环境影响、可靠性和弹性。此外，该研究将通过与电力和水务合作伙伴的合作产生实际影响。该团队将向研究界和从业者传播他们的成果，开发课程材料，并为代表性不足的研究生和本科生提供多学科研究经验。该项目将为优化、经济合同设计、弹性建模、电力系统、和供水网络。任务 1 将开发方法来推进水电耦合网络建模的最先进水平，并解决两个网络耦合运行中出现的具有挑战性的随机优化问题。任务 2 将开发设计经济合同的方法，以确保水电公司的协调和客户的激励。任务 3 将推进对谁面临基础设施脆弱性的风险进行建模和公平分析。 虽然之前的工作制定了一个衡量人口基本服务损失不平等的总体框架，但尚未与详细的基础设施绩效模型相结合。该项目将建立这种关键的联系，提高考虑脆弱性中潜在不平等的能力，这些脆弱性可能因旨在提高系统性能的干预措施而无意中产生。这对于避免对弱势群体产生负面的、意想不到的后果至关重要。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。