A Novel Mobility Model to Support the Routing of Mobile Energy Resources

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new mobility model for mobile energy resources that enhances power system resilience by enabling efficient routing, with a focus on state transitions and travel times, validated through computational tests.

Contribution

It presents a novel mobility model for MERs supporting routing and service provision, emphasizing model efficiency and scalability.

Findings

Model supports efficient routing of MERs among many nodes.

Linear constraints effectively formulate state transitions and travel times.

Model demonstrates advantages in size and computational efficiency.

Abstract

Mobile energy resources (MERs) have received increasing attention due to their effectiveness in boosting the power system resilience in a flexible way. In this paper, a novel mobility model for MERs is proposed, which can support the routing of MERs to provide various services for the power system. Two key points, the state transitions and travel time of MERs, are formulated by linear constraints. The feasibility of the proposed model, especially its advantages in model size and computational efficiency for the routing of MERs among many nodes with a small time span, is demonstrated by a series of tests.