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Distributionally Robust Unit Commitment with Flexible Generation Resources Considering Renewable Energy Uncertainty
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
  • Siyuan Wang
  • Chaoyue Zhao
  • Lei Fan
  • Rui Bo, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

As the penetration of intermittent renewable energy increases in bulk power systems, flexible generation resources, such as quick-start gas units, become important tools for system operators to address the power imbalance problem. To better capture their flexibility, we proposed a distributionally robust unit commitment framework with both regular and flexible generation resources, in which the unit commitment decisions for flexible generation resources can be adjusted in the second stage to accommodate the renewable energy intermittency. In order to tackle this two-stage distributionally robust mixed-binary model, to which traditional separation algorithms wont apply, we designed an integer L-shaped algorithm with advanced cutting plane techniques. In comparison to the traditional distributionally robust unit commitment, the proposed approach can reduce the system cost through an improved flexible resource quantification in the modeling.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Publication Status
Early Access
Comments
This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants 2045978 and 2046243.
Keywords and Phrases
  • Costs,
  • Distributionally Robust Optimization,
  • Flexible Generation Resources,
  • Measurement,
  • Probability Distribution,
  • Random Variables,
  • Renewable Energy Sources,
  • Renewable Energy Uncertainty,
  • System Flexibility,
  • Transmission Line Matrix Methods,
  • Two-Stage Mixed-Binary Linear Program,
  • Uncertainty,
  • Unit Commitment
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Publication Date
01 Jan 2022
Disciplines
Citation Information
Siyuan Wang, Chaoyue Zhao, Lei Fan and Rui Bo. "Distributionally Robust Unit Commitment with Flexible Generation Resources Considering Renewable Energy Uncertainty" IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2022) ISSN: 1558-0679; 0885-8950
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rui-bo/111/