Publications by Enrica Scolari

Solar irradiance estimations for modeling the variability of photovoltaic generation and assessing violations of grid constraints: A comparison between satellite and pyranometers measurements with load flow simulations

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Enrica Scolari

Global horizontal irradiance (GHI) is typically used to model the power output of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation. On the one hand, satellite estimations are nonpervasive and already available from commercial providers, but they have a limited spa ...

2019

Modelling and Forecasting of Photovoltaic Generation for Microgrid Applications: from Theory to Validation

Enrica Scolari

The penetration of stochastic renewable generation in modern power systems requires to reconsider conventional practices to ensure the reliable functioning of the electrical network. Decentralized control schemes for distributed energy resources (DERs) hav ...

EPFL2019

An ADMM-Based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Emil Namor, Enrica Scolari, Luca Fabietti

This paper describes a two-layer control and coordination framework for distributed energy resources. The lower layer is a real-time model predictive control (MPC) executed at 10 s resolution to achieve fine tuning of a given energy setpoint. The upper lay ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

Experimental Validation of an Explicit Power-Flow Primary Control in Microgrids

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Mario Paolone, Enrica Scolari, Andrey Bernstein, Andreas Martin Kettner, Niek Johannes Bouman, Benoit Jacques Louis Marie Cathiard

The existing approaches to control electrical grids combine frequency and voltage controls at different time-scales. When applied in microgrids with stochastic distributed-generation, grid quality of service problems may occur, such as under- or overvoltag ...

2018

Photovoltaic Model-Based Solar Irradiance Estimators: Performance Comparison and Application to Maximum Power Forecasting

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari

Due to the increasing proportion of distributed photovoltaic (PV) production in the generation mix, the knowledge of the PV generation capacity has become a key factor. In this work, we propose to compute the PV plant maximum power starting from the indire ...

2018

A Comprehensive Assessment of the Short-Term Uncertainty of Grid-Connected PV Systems

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Enrica Scolari

One of the key aspects enabling the bulk integration of photovoltaic (PV) resources into the power grid is the short-term prediction of the maximum available power (from 100 ms to 5 minutes), and the quantification of the associated uncertainties. This is ...

2018

Local estimation of the global horizontal irradiance using an all-sky camera

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari

Localised and high-frequency measurements of the global horizontal irradiance (GHI) are a key information to assess the level of power production of distributed photovoltaic generation. The paper presents a supervised machine learning-based procedure to es ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2018

Increasing the PV hosting Capacity of Distribution Grids with Distributed Storage: Siting, Sizing and Costs

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Enrica Scolari

The capacity of electrical distribution systems of hosting photo-voltaic (PV) generation is limited due to the requirements of distribution system operators (DSOs) to respect statutory voltage levels along feeders and not exceed line current limits. Tradit ...

2018

Experimental Assessment of the Prediction Performance of Dynamic Equivalent Circuit Models of Grid-connected Battery Energy Storage Systems

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Emil Namor, Enrica Scolari

The paper discusses the model identification, validation and experimental testing of current-to-voltage dynamic circuit models for a grid-connected MW-class battery. The model refers to an utility-scale 720 kVA/560 kWh battery energy storage system (BESS) ...

IEEE2018

A Model-Based Filtering Strategy to Reconstruct the Maximum Power Generation of Curtailed Photovoltaic Installations: application to forecasting

Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari

In this paper, we propose a model-based filtering strategy to reconstruct the maximum power production of a PV power plant thanks to integrating measurements of the PV cell temperature, system DC voltage and DC current. The filter relies on a reversed phys ...

IEEE2017