A Statistical Approach to Estimate Imbalance-Induced Energy Losses for Data-Scarce Low Voltage Networks

Lurui Fang, Kang Ma, Ran Li, Zhaoyu Wang, Heng Shi

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Abstract

Phase imbalance in the U.K. and European low-voltage (415 V, LV) distribution networks causes additional energy losses. A key barrier against understanding the imbalance-induced energy losses is the absence of high-resolution time-series data for LV networks. It remains a challenge to estimate imbalance-induced energy losses in LV networks that only have the yearly average currents of the three phases. To address this insufficient data challenge, this paper proposes a new customized statistical approach, named as the clustering, classification, and range estimation (CCRE) approach. It finds a match between the network with only the yearly average phase currents (the data-scarce network) and a cluster of networks with time series of phase current data (data-rich networks). Then, CCRE performs a range estimation of the imbalance-induced energy loss for the cluster of data-rich networks that resemble the data-scarce network. Chebyshev's inequality is applied to narrow down this range, which represents the confidence interval of the imbalance-induced energy loss for the data-scarce network. Case studies reveal that, given such a few data from the data-scarce networks, more than 80% of these networks are classified to the correct clusters and the confidence of the imbalance-induced energy loss estimation is 89%.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8606229
Pages (from-to)2825-2835
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Volume34
Issue number4
Early online date9 Jan 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2019

Keywords

  • Energy loss
  • low voltage
  • phase imbalance
  • power distribution
  • three-phase power

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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