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Community Resilience Through Rapid Restoration Leveraging Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Low-Cost Sensors

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Equitable and automated bottoms-up power restoration following an extreme event will be demonstrated at a site in Puerto Rico. To do so, the team will develop enhanced grid situational awareness techniques integrating behind-the-meter (BTM) distributed energy resources (DER) discovery, impedance sweeping based outage boundary detection, and feasible restoration path identification algorithms. Resilience metric will be developed and incorporated along with situational awareness information in a distributed Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based restoration optimization algorithm to control and mobilize grid assets. These algorithms will be validated through power hardware-in-the-loop experiments and ultimately, a site demonstration to show that outage recovery time and total recovered load could be improved by >20% over the baseline.

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Guo, Xian [GE Vernova Operations, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (United States)] (ORCID:0009000948142407), Mishra, Partha [GE Vernova Operations, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (United States)], Liu, Hanchao [GE Vernova Operations, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (United States)], Chen, Zhe [GE Vernova Operations, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (United States)], Wang, Yuling [GE Vernova Operations, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (United States)], Sehgal, Hullas [GE Vernova Operations, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (United States)], Ademola-Idowu, Atinuke [GE Vernova Operations, LLC, Niskayuna, NY (United States)], Gevorgian, Vahan [National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), Golden, CO (United States)], Shah, Shahil [National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), Golden, CO (United States)], Subramania, Ganapathi [Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)], Huertas, Alfonso Baretty [LUMA, San Juan (Puerto Rico)]. 2026-06-18. Community Resilience Through Rapid Restoration Leveraging Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and Low-Cost Sensors. https://doi.org/10.2172/3376159

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