Multi-timescale robust dispatching for coordinated automatic generation control and energy storage

Abstract

The increasing penetration of renewable energy into power grids is reducing the regulation capacity of automatic generation control (AGC). Thus, there is an urgent demand to coordinate AGC units with active equipment such as energy storage. Current dispatch decision-making methods often ignore the intermittent effects of renewable energy. This paper proposes a two-stage robust optimization model in which energy storage is used to compensate for the intermittency of renewable energy for the dispatch of AGC units. This model exploits the rapid adjustment capability of energy storage to compensate for the slow response speed of AGC units, improve the adjustment potential, and respond to the problems of intermittent power generation from renewable energy. A column and constraint generation algorithm is used to solve the model. In an example analysis, the proposed model was more robust than a model that did not consider energy storage at eliminating the effects of intermittency while offering clear improvements in economy and efficiency

Keywords

• Automatic generation control
• Energy storage
• Intermittency
• Coordinated dispatching
• Robust optimization