Research on New Energy and Thermal Power Proportion Comparison of UHVDC Generation Expansion Planning

Abstract

Generation expansion planning of UHVDC plays a crucial role in optimizing resource utilization. A mixed delivery of wind, solar, and thermal power can help achieve multiple objectives such as to stabilize power supply, to raise renewable energy ratio, to reduce the wind and solar curtailment rate, while keeping the price acceptable. This paper considers 4 objectives of generation planning of UHVDC and formulates a model to simulate the operation and thus get the key indices that are used to choose from possible generation expansion planning options. We show the effect of the proposed method using a case study of the Xinjiang 3rd UHVDC channel.