Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy

ISSN 2196-5625 CN 32-1884/TK

A Fast Calculation Method for Long-term Security-constrained Unit Commitment of Large-scale Power Systems with Renewable Energy
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School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFB0902200).

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    Abstract:

    With the increase in the penetration rate of renewable energy, the planning and operation of power systems will face huge challenges. To ensure the sufficient utilization of renewable energy, the reasonable arrangement for the long-term power generation plan has become more crucial. Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is a critical technical means to optimize the long-term power generation plan. However, the plentiful power sources and the complex grid structure in large-scale power systems will bring great difficulties to long-term SCUC. In this paper, we propose a fast calculation method for long-term SCUC of large-scale power systems with renewable energy. First, a method for unit status reduction based on temporal decomposition is proposed, which will reduce plenty of binary variables and intertemporal constraints in SCUC. Then, an efficient redundant constraint identification (RCI) method is developed to reduce the number of network constraints. Furthermore, a joint accelerated calculation framework for status reduction and RCI is formed, which can reduce the complexity of long-term SCUC while ensuring a high-precision feasible solution. In case studies, numerical results based on two test systems ROTS2017 and NREL-118 are analyzed, which verify the effectiveness and scalability of the proposed calculation method.

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  • Received:March 03,2021
  • Revised:June 11,2021
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  • Online: September 24,2022
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