可再生能源分布式微网电源规划方法及应用

近年来, 可再生能源分布式发电微网技术研究引起国内外广泛关注. 本论文将遗传算法应用到风–光–柴–蓄组成的可再生能源分布式微网电源规划中, 建立微网电源规划模型及相关约束条件, 以满足能量平衡控制、费效率等为最优原则, 给出了算法的实现流程. 最后, 结合案例说明了算法的应用.     

Distributed energy trading with transmission cost:a Stackelberg game approach

Dear editor, Distributed generation combines different renewable energy sources at the edge of the grid,such as wind and solar power.It helps manage energy dema...     

Effects of engine thermal transients on the energy management of series hybrid solar vehicles

The paper focuses on investigating thermal-transients effects, associated to intermittent use of internal combustion engine (ICE), on fuel economy and hydrocarbon (HC) emissions of series hybrid solar vehicles (HSVs). An offline, non-linear constrained optimization is set-up to individuate the ICE power trajectory that simultaneously minimizes fuel consumption, suitably operates the battery and fully exploits daily solar contribution. The results highlight the importance of including thermal transients in HSV energy management. The combined effects of engine, generator and battery losses, along with cranking energy and thermal transients, produce non-trivial solutions for the engine/generator group, which should not necessarily operate at its maximum efficiency.     

A Parametric Genetic Algorithm Approach to Assess Complementary Options of Large Scale Wind-solar Coupling

The transitional path towards a highly renewable power system based on wind and solar energy sources is investigated considering their intermittent and spatially distributed characteristics. Using an extensive weather-driven simulation of hourly power mismatches between generation and load, we explore the interplay between geographical resource complementarity and energy storage strategies. Solar and wind resources are considered at variable spatial scales across Europe and related to the Swiss load curve, which serve as a typical demand side reference. The optimal spatial distribution of renewable units is further assessed through a parameterized optimization method based on a genetic algorithm. It allows us to explore systematically the effective potential of combined integration strategies depending on the sizing of the system, with a focus on how overall performance is affected by the definition of network boundaries. Upper bounds on integration schemes are provided considering both renewable penetration and needed reserve power capacity. The quantitative trade-off between grid extension, storage and optimal wind-solar mix is highlighted. This paper also brings insights on how optimal geographical distribution of renewable units evolves as a function of renewable penetration and grid extent.      

Optimal reactive power dispatch with uncertainties in load demand and renewable energy sources adopting scenario-based approach

Optimizing reactive power flow in electrical network is an important aspect of system study as the reactive power supports network voltage which needs to be maintained within desirable limits for system reliability. A network consisting of only conventional thermal generators has been extensively studied for optimal active and reactive power dispatch. However, increasing penetration of renewable sources into the grid necessitates power flow studies incorporating these sources. This paper presents a formulation and solution procedure for stochastic optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem with uncertainties in load demand, wind and solar power. Appropriate probability density functions (PDFs) are considered to model the stochastic load demand and the power generated from the renewable energy sources. Numerous scenarios are created running Monte-Carlo simulation and scenario reduction technique is implemented to deal with reduced number of scenarios. Real power loss and steady state voltage deviation of load buses in the network are set as the objectives of optimization. Success history based adaptive differential evolution (SHADE) is adopted as the basic search algorithm. SHADE has been successfully integrated with a constraint handling technique, called epsilon constraint (EC) handling, to handle constraints in ORPD problem. The effectiveness of a proper constraint handling technique is substantiated with case studies for deterministic ORPD on base configurations of IEEE 30-bus and 57-bus systems using SHADE-EC algorithm. The single-objective and multi-objective stochastic ORPD cases are also solved using the SHADE-EC algorithm. The results are discussed, compared and critically analyzed in this study.     

FPGA based substantial power evolution controlling strategy for solar and wind forecasting grid connected system

The solar and wind are both the most promising renewable and clean energy sources, the solar stable energy progress and environmental protection have been increasingly noticeable. In this regard, an accurate solar and wind energy prediction is extremely important to avoid large voltage changes to the power grid and to provide a mechanism for the system to optimally manage the generated energy. Wind energy forecasting is widely practiced among modest power systems for high levels of windmills. This paper aims to develop a new hybrid system for wind and solar energy prediction. The proposed hybrid (wind & solar) energy prediction model is based on a Substantial Power Evolution Strategy (SPES) dedicated to short-term forecasting. The proposed forecasting system SPES is implemented using MATLAB. This paper implements the short-term and hybrid power forecasting using Substantial Power Evolution Strategy based on Prediction Intervals (PIs). This feature is one of the major innovations in the proposed hybrid renewable energy forecasting system. The accuracy of the proposed system will be revealed by comparing the results of the corresponding values of the independent forecasting models called persistence models. The designed device presents a real-time application of predicting daily total solar and wind power using any geographic location and environmental conditions using FPGA. Finally, fully developed system packages can be commercialized and/or utilized for further research projects, and researchers can analyze, validate and visualize their models for related fields.     

An economic load dispatch and multiple environmental dispatch problem solution with microgrids using interior search algorithm

Microgrid is a novel small-scale system of the centralized electricity for a small-scale community such as villages and commercial area. Microgrid consists of micro-sources like distribution generator, solar and wind units. A microgrid is consummate specific purposes like reliability, cost reduction, emission reduction, efficiency improvement, use of renewable sources and continuous energy source. In the microgrid, the Energy Management System is having a problem of Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) and Combined Economic Emission Dispatch (CEED) and it is optimized by meta-heuristic techniques. The key objective of this paper is to solve the Combined Economic Emission Dispatch (CEED) problem to obtain optimal system cost. The CEED is the procedure to scheduling the generating units within their bounds together with minimizing the fuel cost and emission values. The newly introduced Interior Search Algorithm (ISA) is applied for the solution of ELD and CEED problem. The minimization of total cost and total emission is obtained for four different scenarios like all sources included all sources without solar energy, all sources without wind energy and all sources without solar and wind energy. In both scenarios, the result shows the comparison of ISA with the Reduced Gradient Method (RGM), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) technique and Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) for the two different cases which are ELD without emission and CEED with emission. The results are calculated for different Power Demand of 24 h. The results obtained to ISA give comparatively better cost reduction as compared with RGM, ACO and CSA which shows the effectiveness of the given algorithm.

     

Distributed computing for carbon footprint reduction by exploiting low-footprint energy availability

Low carbon footprint energy sources such as solar and wind power typically suffer from unpredictable or limited availability. By globally distributing a number of these renewable sources, these effects can largely be compensated for. We look at the feasibility of this approach for powering already distributed data centers in order to operate at a reduced total carbon footprint. From our study we show that carbon footprint reductions are possible, but that these are highly dependent on the approach and parameters involved. Especially the manufacturing footprint and the geographical region are critical parameters to consider. Deploying additional data centers can help in reducing the total carbon footprint, but substantial reductions can be achieved when data centers with nominal capacity well below maximum capacity redistribute processing to sites based on renewable energy availability.     

微电网的电流均衡/电压恢复自适应动态规划策略研究

含多类型分布式电源的微电网已经成为了未来电力系统的重要发展方向,其中风能和光能在降低化石能源消耗和二氧化碳排放等方面有着极大优势,考虑二者之间强互补性的协同调度已被广泛研究.但风/光协同调度的微电网多关注分钟级的调度或优化问题而非风/光波动下秒级的实时电流按容量比例精准分担,简称电流均衡,而精准电流均衡有助于可再生能源的高比例消纳.因此,本文提出了基于自适应动态规划的微电网电流均衡和电压恢复控制策略.首先,构建包含风电整流型电能变换器和光电升压型电能变换器的广义风光拓扑同胚升压变换器模型,其提供了后续控制器设计的模型基础.其次,本文将电流均衡和电压恢复问题转化为最优控制问题,基于此,每个能源主体的目标函数转化为获取最优控制变量和最小电压/电流控制偏差,进而转化为求解哈密顿?雅克比?贝尔曼(Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman,HJB)方程问题.基于此,提出了基于贝尔曼准则的分布式自适应动态规划控制策略以求取HJB方程的数值解,最终实现电流均衡和电压恢复.最后仿真结果验证了所提分布式自适应动态规划控制策略的有效性.     

微电网的电流均衡/电压恢复自适应动态规划策略研究

含多类型分布式电源的微电网已经成为了未来电力系统的重要发展方向,其中风能和光能在降低化石能源消耗和二氧化碳排放等方面有着极大优势,考虑二者之间强互补性的协同调度已被广泛研究.但风/光协同调度的微电网多关注分钟级的调度或优化问题而非风/光波动下秒级的实时电流按容量比例精准分担,简称电流均衡,而精准电流均衡有助于可再生能源的高比例消纳.因此,本文提出了基于自适应动态规划的微电网电流均衡和电压恢复控制策略.首先,构建包含风电整流型电能变换器和光电升压型电能变换器的广义风光拓扑同胚升压变换器模型,其提供了后续控制器设计的模型基础.其次,本文将电流均衡和电压恢复问题转化为最优控制问题,基于此,每个能源主体的目标函数转化为获取最优控制变量和最小电压/电流控制偏差,进而转化为求解哈密顿?雅克比?贝尔曼(Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman,HJB)方程问题.基于此,提出了基于贝尔曼准则的分布式自适应动态规划控制策略以求取HJB方程的数值解,最终实现电流均衡和电压恢复.最后仿真结果验证了所提分布式自适应动态规划控制策略的有效性.     

Evaluation of solar aided biomass power generation systems with parabolic trough field

Solar and biomass are both renewable energy resources.Using biomass as fuel is becoming more and more attractive after governments increase the tariff for the electricity from the renewable sources.However the costs of power from a biomass power generation plant depend greatly on the availability and quality of the biomass resource.The commercialization of solar alone thermal power generation is hindered by its high initial investment and low thermal efficiency.In this paper,a concept of integrating solar i...     

Heuristic decision rules for short-term trading of renewable energy with co-located energy storage

In the last decade, the share of renewable energy sources in the energy mix has risen significantly in many countries, and the large-scale integration of these intermittent energy sources constitutes a major challenge to the power grid. A crucial building block of a successful transformation of today's energy systems is the use of energy storage, either co-located with renewable energy sources or on a grid-level.To this end, we present a model on the basis of a Markov Decision Process for the short-term trading of intermittent energy production co-located with energy storage. The model explicitly considers the time lag between trade and delivery of energy, which is characteristic for energy markets. Our storage representation includes asymmetrical conversion losses, asymmetrical power, and self-discharge. Stochastic production and market prices are represented by ARIMA processes, and the producer may also undertake price arbitrage by purchasing energy on the market when prices are comparatively low.Regarding the solution of our model, we develop several intuitive and easily interpretable decision rules that can be readily applied in practice. An extensive numerical study, based on real-world data, confirms the excellent performance of these rules in comparison to a sophisticated Approximate Dynamic Programming algorithm adapted from literature.     

Advanced chance-constrained predictive control for the efficient energy management of renewable power systems

This study presents a complete advanced control structure aimed at the optimal and most efficient energy management for a Grid-Connected Hybrid Power plant. This control scheme is composed of process supervision and process control layers, and it is a possible technology to enable improvements in the energy consumption of industrial systems subject to constraints and process demands. The proposed structure consists of the combination of a Model-Based Predictive Controller, formulated within the Chance Constraints framework to deal with stochastic disturbances (renewable sources, as solar irradiance), an optimal finite-state machine decision system and the use of disturbance estimation techniques for the prediction of renewable sources. The predictive controller uses feedforward compensation of estimated future disturbances, obtained by the use of Nonlinear Auto-Regressive Neural Networks with time delays. The proposed controller aims to perform the management of which energy system to use and to decide where to store energy between multiple storage options. This has to be done while always maximizing the use of renewable energy and optimizing energy generation due to contract rules (maintain maximal economic profit). The proposed method is applied to a case study of energy generation in a sugar cane power plant, with non-dispatchable renewable sources (such as photovoltaic and wind power generation), as well as dispatchable sources (as biomass and biogas). This hybrid power system is subject to operational constraints, as to produce steam in different pressures, sustain internal demands and, imperiously, produce and maintain an amount of electric power throughout each month, defined by strict contract rules with a local Distribution Network Operator (DNO). This paper aims to justify the use of this novel approach to optimal energy generation in hybrid microgrids through simulation, illustrating the performance improvement for different cases.     

Nonlinear MPC Controller Design for AIR Supply of PEM Fuel Cell Based Power Systems

The air supply system, which provides the oxygen for the fuel cell stack, is one of the most important subsystems of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). In order to improve the performance of the air supply, a small rechargeable lithium‐ion battery is utilized to start up the PEMFC system and provide buffer power supply for the load demand. With energy consumption of the compressor considered, a power coordinating algorithm utilizing a virtual potential field approach is presented to manage the power demand for the PEMFC and the battery while maintaining the battery's state of charge. A nonlinear observer is designed to estimate the unmeasurable states of the air supply system and its convergence is proven. A nonlinear MPC method is proposed to control the air flow and ensure the adequate oxygen supply. Simulation results are provided to validate the performance of the power management algorithm and the air supply control method. Compared with the results of the MPC algorithm and the nonlinear MPC method for the PEMFC system without an auxiliary battery, the method designed here has better performance.     

Optimal scheduling of battery storage with grid tied PV systems for trade-off between consumer energy cost and storage health

With the advent of renewable energy in India has initiated consumers to get energy storage systems to mange solar power variation. To solve intermittency issues from weather related events that occur with residential photovoltaic generation, intelligent power management strategies have been carried outto tune efficacy of the consumer's renewable energy system while reducing cost. The proposed method decides the state of charge schedule for the battery storage based on a dynamic programming algorithm that minimizes consumer energy cost and maximizes energy storage state of health. The battery state of health was introduced into the model as an ageing coefficient that forces conservative battery behaviour to preserve its lifetime with continued use.Simulation results show a high potential to increase the profitability of a grid connected PV- BESS system using time of use (TOU) tariff.     

Energy supply planning and supply chain optimization under uncertainty

In energy supply planning and supply chain design, the coupling between long-term planning decisions like capital investment and short-term operation decisions like dispatching present a challenge, waiting to be tackled by systems and control engineers. The coupling is further complicated by uncertainties, which may arise from several sources including the market, politics, and technology. This paper addresses the coupling in the context of energy supply planning and supply chain design. We first discuss a simple two-stage stochastic program formulation that addresses optimization of an energy supply chain in the presence of uncertainties. The two-stage formulation can handle problems in which all design decisions are made up front and operating parameters act as ‘recourse’ decisions that can be varied from one time period to next based on realized values of uncertain parameters. The design of a biodiesel production network in the Southeastern region of the United States is used as an illustrative example. The discussion then moves on to a more complex multi-stage, multi-scale stochastic decision problem in which periodic investment/policy decisions are made on a time scale orders of magnitude slower than that of operating decisions. The problem of energy capacity planning is introduced as an example. In the particular problem we examine, annual acquisition of energy generation capacities of various types are coupled with hourly energy production and dispatch decisions. The increasing role of renewable sources like wind and solar necessitates the use of a fine-grained time scale for accurate assessment of their values. Use of storage intended to overcome the limitations of intermittent sources puts further demand on the modeling and optimization. Numerical challenges that arise from the multi-scale nature and uncertainties are reviewed and some possible modeling and numerical solution approaches are discussed.     

Grid Integration of Wind Generation Considering Remote Wind Farms: Hybrid Markovian and Interval Unit Commitment

Grid integration of wind power is essential to reduce fossil fuel usage but challenging in view of the intermittent nature of wind. Recently, we developed a hybrid Markovian and interval approach for the unit commitment and economic dispatch problem where power generation of conventional units is linked to local wind states to dampen the effects of wind uncertainties. Also, to reduce complexity, extreme and expected states are considered as interval modeling. Although this approach is effective, the fact that major wind farms are often located in remote locations and not accompanied by conventional units leads to conservative results. Furthermore, weights of extreme and expected states in the objective function are difficult to tune, resulting in significant differences between optimization and simulation costs. In this paper, each remote wind farm is paired with a conventional unit to dampen the effects of wind uncertainties without using expensive utility-scaled battery storage, and extra constraints are innovatively established to model pairing. Additionally, proper weights are derived through a novel quadratic fit of cost functions. The problem is solved by using a creative integration of our recent surrogate Lagrangian relaxation and branch-and-cut. Results demonstrate modeling accuracy, computational efficiency, and significant reduction of conservativeness of the previous approach.      

基于随机模型预测控制的含大规模风电接入的电力系统优化调度

风电是重要的清洁可再生能源,将其引入智能电网中对节能减排有着重要的意义.为降低大规模风电不确定性给电网调度带来的影响,提出一种基于随机模型预测控制的风电与传统机组协调调度方法.考虑了部分传统机组需要人工调度而无法频繁、连续操作的情况,并引入可调负荷以增加系统可调度能力.构建基于混合整数二次规划(MIQP)的风电调度目标函数,以及包括机组最大可调节次数、最小运行/停机时间、可调度负荷总能量需求一致性、风电切负荷比例等约束.提出两阶段场景缩减方法以实现典型场景的快速筛选.通过与传统开环调度方法的性能对比表明所提出方法的可行性与有效性,并在此基础上进一步分析机组启停次数和可调度负荷对系统运行的影响.     

基于模型预测控制的含多微电网的能源互联网分布式协同优化

研究了预测不确定性条件下含多个微电网的能源互联网分布式协同调度策略.各微电网都拥有多种智能负荷,如功率可调负荷、可调度负荷和关键负荷;部分微电网含有分布式电源,如微型燃气轮机、风电机组、光伏发电系统等;且部分微电网还拥有储能设备,如电池储能系统.每个微电网都可当做一个独立的实体,拥有自己的运行目标,这些运行目标可表示成混合整数规划模型.提出了基于并行分布式优化的博弈模型以较小的信息通信量协调各微电网带有竞争性的运行目标.在此基础上,引入模型预测控制（MPC）机制以降低能源互联网中风、光等可再生能源输出、负荷需求及电价波动的不确定性产生的不利影响.算例证明了本文所提方法的可行性和有效性.     

风光气储联合发电最优容量配比问题研究

开发和利用农村的风能、光能、沼气是解决偏远农村地区用电量快速增加和偏远山区供电问题的有效途径,该文针对3种可再生能源和储能的联合发电问题,通过研究它们之间的协调互补性,提出了一种新型的"风光气储"多能源互补的微电网供电系统,在该系统中因地制宜地采用沼气和蓄电池作为备用电源,通过改进的鲸鱼算法对"风光气储"联合运行问题进行了优化,仿真实验结果表明在成本最低和弃风弃光率最低这2个目标下都能稳定的运行,对已经有的粒子群算法、遗传算法和鲸鱼算法进行了对比,实验结果表明改进的鲸鱼算法在解决"风光气储"最优容量配比问题上得到了很大的提升。