Preventive allocation and post-disaster cooperative dispatch of emergency mobile resources for improved distribution system resilience*

Repair crews (RCs) and mobile power sources (MPSs) are emergency mobile resources (EMRs) for distribution system repair and restoration. In this paper, an outage management strategy (OMS) is proposed to improve the distribution system resilience against extreme weather events in both preventive and post-disaster stages. In the preventive stage, considering the uncertainty of fault location, the resource allocation problem is formulated as a two-stage stochastic programming to minimize the expected load shedding cost shortly after the disaster. The post-disaster stage is a cooperative dispatch of EMRs, accompanied by dynamic microgrid formation. With the progress of line repair, the MPSs are dispatched to different locations to support microgrids. The optimal repair sequence of faulted lines and scheduling of MPSs are determined in a multi-timeslot dispatch model. The proposed algorithm is validated by IEEE 123-bus test system and a 118-bus real-world system. The simulation results demonstrate that OMS can efficiently restore critical loads via an optimal utilization of mobile resources.