Hybrid incremental cost consensus algorithm for smart grid distributed energy management under packet loss environment

With the development of smart grid technology, the future power system will become a complex cyber-physical system. The control and management of this system will impose new challenges to the current Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system such as scalability in its computational and communications effort, and robustness to single point of failure. Decentralized cooperative control is promising to control and manage such a system in a more efficient and robust way. Consensus based algorithms have been proposed by researchers to deal with various power system applications in a distributed manner. Because of the sensitivity to communications imperfections, the performance of the consensus based algorithms degrade when the communication packet loss happens in practical applications. In this paper, a Hybrid Incremental Cost Consensus (Hybrid ICC) algorithm is proposed. Different from other consensus based algorithms, the Hybrid ICC algorithm is robust against communications imperfections by integrating gossip algorithm and consensus algorithm together. Several case studies are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed Hybrid ICC algorithm and demonstrate the scalability and robustness under packet loss scenarios.