Agent-based real-time Coordination of Power Flow Controllers

Energy market activities together with integration of renewable energies are currently causing an increase of distance between generation and load as well as an increase of volatility of power flows. As a consequence, the Transmission System Operators install Power Flow Controlling (PFC) devices to increase transmission capacity and controllability of their grids. In this thesis a new real-time coordination system for PFC-devices is developed, using a distributed approach. Agents exchange local information about the status and loading of power system devices. By evaluation of these messages, controlling agents perform a distributed topology and sensitivity analysis to be used in a weighting function to determine the next control actions.