Cloud-based next-generation IT paradigm for the operations of future power systems
Eugene Litvinov, Feng Ma, Qiang Zhang, Xiaochuan Luo · 2016
The landscape of power systems has been changing significantly as the result of the adoption of a variety of new technologies, high penetration of renewable energy, increasing complexity of the grid, etc. As a new and cost-effective paradigm, cloud-based power system applications will help power system planners and operators to prepare for these challenges. It allows for easy access to larger scale computing resources over Internet that facilitates the data acquisition, storage, and analytics for power system operations and analyses. This paper presents two kinds of such applications: (1) cloud-based power system simulation and (2) cloud-hosted synchrophasor platform. The preliminary results from these applications are presented and discussed in detail in this paper.