{"title":"Day ahead energy market and Reliability Unit Commitment: An integrated approach","authors":"A. Papalexopoulos, P. Andrianesis","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038424","url":null,"abstract":"The restructured electricity markets typically involve a Day-Ahead Market (DAM), which clears bid-in demand that may be generally different (lower) than the demand forecast. This difference gives rise to reliability concerns to the Independent System Operators (ISOs), which are addressed with the deployment of a mechanism that is usually called Reliability (or Residual) Unit Commitment (RUC). Currently, the ISOs execute the RUC process after the DAM application, to procure additional resources, beyond the DAM energy schedules, to meet the demand forecast. In this paper, we compare the currently employed sequential approach, with a proposed integrated approach which combines the functionality of the DAM and the RUC into one market application. We present the market model including all market commodities, namely energy, ancillary services and RUC capacity, for both methodologies, and apply them on a realistic test case, using actual market/system data. We derive quantitative and qualitative results for a practical system, which illustrate the value of the integration of the market and the reliability functions in the forward spot market. The key conclusion from our simulation runs, is that the integrated approach offers substantial efficiencies by procuring all DAM products simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122903431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manuel Ruiz, J. Maeght, A. Marié, P. Panciatici, A. Renaud
{"title":"A progressive method to solve large-scale AC optimal power flow with discrete variables and control of the feasibility","authors":"Manuel Ruiz, J. Maeght, A. Marié, P. Panciatici, A. Renaud","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038395","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a study on power system networks which aims to produce a dynamic simulation based security assessment taking into account uncertainties. An extended Optimal Power Flow without any guarantee on feasibility leads to the resolution of a Mixed-Integer NonLinear Problem (MINLP). Solving a (MINLP) is very challenging and even harder when the problem is not convex and could be unfeasible. A custom filtering method which tries to explain infeasibilities and uses the nonlinear solver KNITRO to reformulate discrete variables into nonlinear constraints is proposed. Preliminary results on the French and European power systems network demonstrate the interest of this approach on real-life cases.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129483523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A decomposition scheme for Short Term Hydrothermal Scheduling problems suitable for parallel processing","authors":"Tiago Norbiato, A. Diniz, C. Borges","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038355","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the application of the multi-stage Benders decomposition methodology to solve the Short Term Hydrothermal Scheduling problem with a smart definition of stages. The transmission network is represented in detail by a DC-linear model with losses, where the voltage phase angles are included directly in the optimization problem. The decomposition approach allows the application of parallel processing. Two cases are presented: the first one based on the IEEE 118 buses system, in order to assess the consistency of the methodology, while the second one is the actual Brazilian System, for performance analysis. The CPU time is reduced with the proposed methodology as compared to traditional Benders decomposition, while obtaining the same optimal solution for system operation.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129666424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Zeng, Zhi Wu, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Caihao Liang, Yantao Zhang
{"title":"Model predictive control for energy storage systems in a network with high penetration of renewable energy and limited export capacity","authors":"P. Zeng, Zhi Wu, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Caihao Liang, Yantao Zhang","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038359","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers a novel control strategy for energy storage systems in networks with high penetration of renewable power and limited network capacity based on the combination of model predictive control (MPC) and hierarchical optimization. The objective is to maximize the output, hence the income, from the renewable generation using appropriate charging and discharging control strategy for energy storage systems based on the prediction of renewable power output, demand and network capability in future time horizon. The battery energy storage system can be used to smooth out the variations in renewable energy such as, wind power, and maximize renewable power output whilst meeting the system constraints. Furthermore network interconnection capacity with other systems must be honored. Network interconnection capability depends on many factors including demand and flexible/inflexible generation within the network and also the external systems. In this paper, we show how this problem can be formulated as an optimization problem, leading directly to the design of a model predictive controller. In this scheme, the optimal control for energy storage systems is implemented in a receding time horizon. The method is applied as a case study to the modified IEEE-30 bus test system and northwest power grid of China.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123379923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Pirnia, C. Cañizares, Kankar Bhattacharya, A. Vaccaro
{"title":"An affine arithmetic approach for microgrid dispatch with variable generation and load","authors":"M. Pirnia, C. Cañizares, Kankar Bhattacharya, A. Vaccaro","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038382","url":null,"abstract":"A self-validated computing (SVC) method, based on affine arithmetic (AA) is proposed in this paper to solve the optimal power flow (OPF) problem for microgrids with renewable sources of variable generation. In the AA-based OPF formulation, all the state and control variables are presented in affine form, to represent the variable load, and wind and solar generation. Hence, the OPF model becomes an interval-based model with upper and lower bounds to represent the uncertain variables. To check the accuracy of the AA-based method, the resulted intervals are compared against those obtained from Monte-Carlo Simulation (MCS), in a 13-bus microgrid test system. The obtained real power generation intervals for thermal generators are used to determine the reserves required in dispatchable generators in the short-term to properly supply for the variability of load and intermittent renewable generation sources.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114097257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexibility in generation planning: Identifying key operating constraints","authors":"B. Palmintier","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038323","url":null,"abstract":"This paper utilizes the recent methodology of clustered integer unit commitment (UC) - which tractably captures operational flexibility within generation expansion planning - to explore which operating constraints are the most important for generation investment decisions. Flexibility has been previously shown to alter the optimal generation mix, particularly in scenarios with high flexibility required by significant renewables (>=20%) and/or decreased flexibility of some low-carbon technologies (e.g. traditional nuclear). This work explores the potential to relax some operating constraints to speed-up computation while controlling errors. It is found that operating reserves and maintenance are the most important constraints, while hour-to-hour ramping is least important. However, relaxing integers provides the best accuracy vs. performance trade-offs, but only when the linear program (LP) relaxation includes the full problem with UC constraints. This reduces computation time ~50× with the lowest errors across all metrics: cost (-1%), CO2 (-1%), capacity (-9%), and energy mix (-9%). Considerably high speed ups are possible using the LP relaxed formulation with selected subsets of UC constraints. For cost and CO2, the combination of grouped reserves, ramping, maintenance, and LP provides errors around 2% with ~1500× speedup. However, for capacity and energy mixes, only LP provides reasonable errors (<;25%).","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116193639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operational strategies for predictive dispatch of control reserves in view of stochastic generation","authors":"S. Delikaraoglou, K. Heussen, P. Pinson","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038417","url":null,"abstract":"In view of the predictability and stochasticity of wind power generation, transmission system operators (TSOs) can benefit from predictive dispatch of slow and manual control reserves in order to maintain reactive reserve levels for unpredictable events. While scenario-based approaches for stochastic optimization are well suited for this problem, it appears that TSOs are hesitant in adopting this method into their practice of predictive dispatch. Differences in the formulation of constraints and cost functions, the timing and reserve product constraints influence the dispatch result significantly and yield varying results with different practical implications. To support adoption, there is a need to study relevant parameters and trade-offs to be considered in introducing such methods to operation practice, enabling also the investigation of alternate reserve product constraints, e.g., to enable reserve contribution from storage-constrained units. This paper introduces a framework for comparison of operational strategies for system balancing, proposes criteria for performance assessment and exemplifies a systematic evaluation of several operation strategies.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"83 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113943360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Celli, G. G. Soma, F. Pilo, F. Lacu, S. Mocci, N. Natale
{"title":"Aggregated electric vehicles load profiles with fast charging stations","authors":"G. Celli, G. G. Soma, F. Pilo, F. Lacu, S. Mocci, N. Natale","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038402","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of electrical-mobility in opposition to the present oil-mobility is becoming even more attractive worldwide. Fast Charging Station (FCS) refers charging stations with nominal power equal or higher than 50 kW. The impacts of EV charging on electricity grids is becoming an increasingly important subject of study, but detailed knowledge about the future charging profiles of EVs appears to be missing in Literature. The FCS requires high power and they must be connected to MV networks. For that reasons, it is crucial to analyze these situations and to model the FCS consumption, in order to correctly plan the expansion of the MV system. In the paper a Monte Carlo simulation methodology is proposed to model the aspects that influence the request of fast charge for EVs. The EV charge profiles should be used in the planning and in the EV impact analysis of the future networks.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114742690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. A. Gonzalez-Fernandez, Ricci E. Oviedo-Sanabria, Armando M. Leite da Silva
{"title":"Generating capacity reliability assessment of the Itaipu hydroelectric plant via sequential Monte Carlo simulation","authors":"R. A. Gonzalez-Fernandez, Ricci E. Oviedo-Sanabria, Armando M. Leite da Silva","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038436","url":null,"abstract":"The Itaipu Dam is a well-known hydroelectric plant located at the Paraná River, in the border between Brazil and Paraguay. With an installed capacity of 14GW, Itaipu is currently the world's largest electric energy generation plant and the second largest in terms of installed capacity, reaching in 2012 a total generation of 98.3TWh. This work proposes a probabilistic methodology based on sequential Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) to assess the generating capacity reliability of Itaipu. The main objective is to estimate reliability indices which can quantify the risks of not having sufficient available generation capacity to meet contractual and/or system demands. All deterministic and stochastic data regarding the Itaipu generating units are directly obtained from their operating history data base. Furthermore, many chronological aspects, such as scheduled maintenance and capacity fluctuation, can be easily included in the simulation model. Finally, by taking advantage of the sequential MCS framework, the proposed method can represent both Markovian and non-Markovian state transitions, obtain monthly indices, and also estimate the annualized reliability indices probability distributions. Case studies are presented and discussed in details.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114847607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iason Avramiotis-Falireas, P. Zolotarev, A. Ahmadi-Khatir, M. Zima
{"title":"Analysis and comparison of secondary frequency control reserve activation rules: Pro-rata vs. merit order","authors":"Iason Avramiotis-Falireas, P. Zolotarev, A. Ahmadi-Khatir, M. Zima","doi":"10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038293","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the two common activation rules for secondary frequency control, namely pro-rata activation and merit-order activation based on submitted bids. A representative model of power plant and control area is built and then technical and economic comparisons are performed. The study has been done using practical data available to the Swiss TSO, Swissgrid, and one of the German TSOs, TransnetBW.","PeriodicalId":155801,"journal":{"name":"2014 Power Systems Computation Conference","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114869112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}