scholarly journals Costs optimization for unit commitment and economic load dispatch in large scale power systems

Author(s):  
Norhamimi ◽  
M.M. Ahmed ◽  
I. Hassan
Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 3777
Author(s):  
Cristian Camilo Marín-Cano ◽  
Juan Esteban Sierra-Aguilar ◽  
Jesús M. López-Lezama ◽  
Álvaro Jaramillo-Duque ◽  
Juan G. Villegas

The uncertainty related to the massive integration of intermittent energy sources (e.g., wind and solar generation) is one of the biggest challenges for the economic, safe and reliable operation of current power systems. One way to tackle this challenge is through a stochastic security constraint unit commitment (SSCUC) model. However, the SSCUC is a mixed-integer linear programming problem with high computational and dimensional complexity in large-scale power systems. This feature hinders the reaction times required for decision making to ensure a proper operation of the system. As an alternative, this paper presents a joint strategy to efficiently solve a SSCUC model. The solution strategy combines the use of linear sensitivity factors (LSF) to compute power flows in a quick and reliable way and a method, which dynamically identifies and adds as user cuts those active security constraints N − 1 that establish the feasible region of the model. These two components are embedded within a progressive hedging algorithm (PHA), which breaks down the SSCUC problem into computationally more tractable subproblems by relaxing the coupling constraints between scenarios. The numerical results on the IEEE RTS-96 system show that the proposed strategy provides high quality solutions, up to 50 times faster compared to the extensive formulation (EF) of the SSCUC. Additionally, the solution strategy identifies the most affected (overloaded) lines before contingencies, as well as the most critical contingencies in the system. Two metrics that provide valuable information for decision making during transmission system expansion are studied.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Safari ◽  
Davoud Sheibai

This paper presents an efficient Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm for solving large scale economic load dispatch (ELD) problems in power networks. To realize the ELD, the valve-point loading effect, system load demand, power losses, ramp rate limits and prohibited operation zones are considered here. Simulations were performed on four different power systems with 3, 6, 15 and 40 generating units and the results are compared with two forms of power systems, one power system is with a wind power generator and other power system is without a wind power generator. The results of this study reveal that the proposed approach is able to find appreciable ELD solutions than those of previous algorithms.


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