Robust stochastic optimal short-term generation scheduling of hydrothermal systems in deregulated environment

Abstract

Hydrothermal systems play a significant role in electric energy systems as important power generation units, which have been studied in previous researches considering remarkable efforts. The optimal short-term hydrothermal scheduling (STHS) aims to attain optimal production scheduling of thermal and hydro plants for determining minimum operation cost of providing demand in the determined time interval. Different constraints should be studied in the solution of such issue containing limitations associated with water discharge, water storage, power production of plants, power balance of the system and water balance of hydro plants. In addition, valve impacts of thermal plants and complex hydraulic coupling of hydro plants are the other operational and technical constraints. In this study, the robust stochastic STHS is studied considering market price and demand uncertainties. Accordingly, robust optimization method is employed in this study to model price uncertainties. In addition, the uncertainties of load demand are handled using scenario-based modeling procedure. The scheduling problem of hydrothermal system is studied in a deregulated environment, where the hydrothermal system belongs to the private company and is capable to sell the surplus generated power to the market. Accordingly, the company aims to obtain maximum profit by selling power to market in addition to supplying power demand of the company. The introduced scheme for stochastic robust STHS is simulated and the provided solutions are investigated to verify the effectiveness of the scheme.

Keywords

• Electric energy systems,Hydrothermal systems,Deregulated environment,Robust optimization method,Short-term scheduling

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