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Background When a power system blackout occurs, it affects the economy of the country and every aspect of human life. Cascading failures can easily occur and cause a major blackout in the power grid due to the breakdown or failure of important nodes or links. Recently, transmission network reconfiguration (TNR) becomes a hot topic and has made many concerns after major blackouts of power systems. Aims TNR is the second‐stage action plan to restore power systems and plays a major role in the process of power system restoration. On the other hand, grid resilience involves a quick dynamic reconfiguration of power systems to minimize the propagation of attack influences on the grid. The motivations to include the works in this survey are based on the quality of the research performed in the transmission network reconfiguration problem for grid resilience. In this article, the state‐of‐the‐art review of recent progress in the network reconfiguration problem of the transmission system for grid resilience is discussed with practical challenges, technical issues, and power industry practices. Materials & Methods In this paper, complex network theory‐based indices with advantages, disadvantages, and their applications have been discussed to assess the important nodes and lines for network reconfiguration problem during sudden disturbances in power systems. Furthermore, optimization models have been presented with objective functions as well as their constraints. Taken together, optimization methodologies have been discussed to solve network reconfiguration problem with merits and demerits. Results This survey paper presents current trends in research and future research directions concerning transmission network reconfiguration for academic researchers and practicing engineers. Furthermore, the most current studies in improving transmission network reconfiguration problem are reviewed by highlighting their advantages and limitations. Discussion Based on a thorough comparison of literature some future perspectives are also discussed for transmission network reconfiguration problem for grid resilience. Conclusion This review paper provides a comprehensive review of current practices applied to transmission network reconfiguration. The core focus of this paper will remain on complex network theory‐based indices, optimization models, optimization methodologies, challenges, and technical issues, and discusses future direction for transmission network reconfiguration problem for grid resilience. Furthermore, the most current studies in improving transmission network reconfiguration problem are reviewed by highlighting their advantages and limitations.

The development of the concentrating solar power (CSP) plant as a new dispatchable resource that can participate in the electricity markets as an independent power producer and coordinate intermittent renewables has attracted much attention recently. In this work, optimal offering strategies of a price-taker CSP plant in the day-ahead (DA) and real-time (RT) electricity markets are addressed considering non-stochastic uncertainties (NSUs) from the thermal production of the CSP plant and stochastic uncertainties (SUs) from the market prices as well as the risk attitude of the CSP plant concerned. A hybrid stochastic information gap approach (SIGA) integrating the well-established information gap decision theory with the mixed conditional value at risk (CVaR) is proposed to hedge the revenue risk against NSUs and SUs in the offering problem based on the risk preference of the decision maker. A two-stage architecture is utilized for framing the DA and RT offering problems, where the first-stage co-optimizes offering strategies in the DA and RT markets, while the second-stage determines the actual RT hourly offering strategy in a rolling horizon manner. Case studies show that the SIGA can make optimal offering strategies against the non-stochastic thermal production and stochastic market prices given the risk attitude of the CSP plant. Comparisons also demonstrate that the SIGA could be an effective tool to manage coexistent NSUs and SUs.

As the physical carrier of the Energy Internet, integrated energy system (IES) is a future development trend in the energy field, and the optimal scheduling of IES for improving energy utilisation efficiency has become a hot topic. An optimal day‐ahead scheduling model of multiple IESs considering integrated demand response (IDR), cooperative game and virtual energy storage (VES) is proposed innovatively in this study to maximise the overall benefits of the cooperative alliance. IDR and VES are considered together for the first time to optimise the internal scheduling of each IES, where IDR can enhance the response potential on the demand side and VES can improve the scheduling flexibility of IES. Cooperative game theory is utilised to process the energy trading mechanism among multiple IESs and the Nash bargaining method is utilised to solve the cooperative game problem and obtain a fair and Pareto‐optimal energy trading strategy. The case study shows that the proposed model effectively improves the operating benefits and the renewable energy penetration levels of each IES.

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Electricity theft has been a major concern to the secure operation of power systems and the interests of power companies. Due to the different methods and types of electricity theft behaviors, it is difficult to determine the suspicion levels of consumers in the research of electricity theft detection. An electricity theft detection method based on stacked autoencoder (SAE) and the undersampling and resampling based random forest (UaRe-RF) algorithm is proposed in this work to formulate appropriate strategies for the practical electricity theft detection requirements of the power company. In the proposed method, the supervised SAE is first trained to extract electricity consumption features that are more adaptable to the classification algorithm for electricity theft detection. Then, the UaRe-RF algorithm is used to establish the class-balanced subsets and determine the suspicion level of each electricity theft user. Finally, two cases of different datasets of electricity consumers are studied for demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the results show that higher classification accuracy and more targeted detection strategies can be achieved through the proposed method.

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