Publication Type
Conference Paper
Book Title
Proceedings of the 19th Mini-EURO Conference on Operations Research Models and Methods in the Energy Sector
Publication Date
Conference Name
ORMMES'06
Conference Location
Coimbra, Portugal
Conference Date
Abstract
We present a central concern in modeling and simulating electric grids and the information infrastructure that monitors and controls them: hybrid modeling and simulation. We argue that imminent modernizations and new technologies will require a joint (hybrid) modeling of the continuous world of power systems and the discrete world of events sparked by external contingencies, and by communication, computation, and control operations. The power systems community requires methods to model and simulate hybrid scenarios for systems as large and complex as the electric grid. We discuss an approach based on DEVS and present a scenario in which the integrated information and electric grid infrastructures address a frequency maintenance problem.
