David P. Chassin

TL;DR: GridLAB-D is a new power system modeling and simulation environment developed by the US Department of Energy and its basic design concept, method of solution, and the initial suite of models it supports are described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the implementation and results of a field demonstration wherein residential electric water heaters and thermostats, commercial building space conditioning, municipal water pump loads, and several distributed generators were coordinated to manage constrained feeder electrical distribution through the two-way communication of load status and electric price signals.

TL;DR: In this article, an electrical appliance coupled with a power distribution system, receiving electrical energy within the appliance from the power distribution systems, consuming the received electrical energy using a plurality of loads of the appliance, and adjusting an amount of consumption of the received energy via one of the loads of appliances from an initial level of consumption to an other level of consuming different than the initial level responsive to the monitoring.

TL;DR: The reliability of electric transmission systems is examined using a scale-free model of network topology and failure propagation, and the results suggest that scale- free network models are usable to estimate aggregate electric grid reliability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a state-queueing model to analyze the price response of aggregated loads consisting of thermostatically controlled appliances (TCAs), and they showed that TCA setpoint changes in response to the market price will result in a redistribution of TCAs in on/off states and therefore change the probabilities for a unit to reside in each state.