Himanshu Neema, William Emfinger, Abhishek Dubey
Proceedings of the 3rd International Transactive Energy Systems, Portland, Oregon, USA 2016
Transactive energy systems require complex multi-domain evaluations combining physical grid dynamics, economic markets, and cyber infrastructure. C2WT-TE innovates by providing a cloud-deployed integration platform enabling seamless connection of diverse simulators while maintaining coherent evaluation of coupled system behaviors across multiple domains and timescales.
This work presents a reusable web-based co-simulation platform for transactive energy systems. The C2WT-TE platform enables integrated evaluations of transactive energy systems combining power domain models, market dynamics, and regulatory environments. It provides high-level architecture supporting heterogeneous simulators including commercial tools and custom models through standardized interfaces.
The platform successfully demonstrates integrated simulation of transactive energy systems combining SUMO traffic simulation, GridLAB-D power system models, and economic market simulators. Experimental evaluation shows feasibility of multi-domain co-simulation for analyzing grid operations with distributed energy resources and market mechanisms. Results validate the approach for complex infrastructure evaluations.
@inproceedings{Neema2016,
author = {Neema, Himanshu and Emfinger, William and Dubey, Abhishek},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Transactive Energy Systems, Portland, Oregon, USA},
title = {A Reusable and Extensible Web-Based Co-Simulation Platform for Transactive Energy Systems},
year = {2016},
volume = {12},
abstract = {Rapid evolution of energy generation technology and increased used of distributed energy resources (DER) is continually pushing utilities to adapt and evolve business models to align with these changes. Today, more consumers are also producing energy using green generation technologies and energy pricing is becoming rather competitive and transactional, needing utilities to increase flexibility of grid operations and incorporate transactive energy systems (TES). However, a huge bottleneck is to ensure stable grid operations while gaining efficiency. A comprehensive platform is therefore needed for grid-scale multi-aspects integrated evaluations. For instance, cyber-attacks in a road traffic controller{\textquoteright}s communication network can subtly divert electric vehicles in a particular area, causing surge in the grid loads due to increased EV charging and people activity, which can potentially disrupt, an otherwise robust, grid. To evaluate such a scenario, multiple special-purpose simulators (e.g., SUMO, OMNeT++, GridlabD, etc.) must be run in an integrated manner. To support this, we are developing a cloud-deployed web- and model-based simulation integration platform that enables integrated evaluations of transactive energy systems and is highly extensible and customizable for utility-specific custom simulation tools.},
category = {workshop},
contribution = {lead},
file = {:Neema2016-A_Reusable_and_Extensible_Web-Based_Co-Simulation_Platform_for_Transactive_Energy_Systems.pdf:PDF},
keywords = {transactive energy, co-simulation, web-based platform, energy markets, smart grids, distributed simulation, multi-domain integration},
tag = {platform,power}
}