Statistical Bus Ranking for Flexible Robust Unit Commitment

Amandeep Gupta

doi:10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2864131

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Statistical Bus Ranking for Flexible Robust Unit Commitment

2019-01-01

Amandeep Gupta *

C. Lindsay Anderson

DOI：10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2864131

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As the level of uncertain renewable capacity increases on power systems worldwide, industrial and academic researchers alike are seeking a scalable, transparent, and effective approach to unit commitment under uncertainty. This paper presents a statistical ranking methodology that allows adaptive robust stochastic unit commitment using a modular structure, with much-needed flexibility. Specifically, this paper describes a bus ranking methodology that identifies the most critical buses based on a worst-case metric. An important innovation is the ability to identify alternative metrics on which to rank the uncertainty set-for example, to minimize economic dispatch cost or ramping needs, to provide a customized robust unit commitment solution. Compared to traditional robust unit commitment models, the proposed model combines statistical tools with analytical framework of power system networks. The resulting formulation is easily implementable and customizable to the needs of the system operator. The method and its applications are validated against other established approaches, showing equivalent solution to the state-of-the-art approach. Case studies were conducted on the IEEE-30, IEEE-118, and the pegase-1354 networks. In addition, the flexibility of bus ranking formulation is illustrated through implementation of alternative definitions of worst-case metrics. Results show that the bus ranking method performs as well as the best of these methods, with the provision of additional flexibility and potential for parallelization.

Keywords:

Robust unit commitment

bus ranking

flexible ramping

bootstrap aggregation

customizability

parallelizable

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