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Title: A robust approach to chance constrained optimal power flow with renewable generation

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Optimal Power Flow (OPF) dispatches controllable generation at minimum cost subject to operational constraints on generation and transmission assets. The uncertainty and variability of intermittent renewable generation is challenging current deterministic OPF approaches. Recent formulations of OPF use chance constraints to limit the risk from renewable generation uncertainty, however, these new approaches typically assume the probability distributions which characterize the uncertainty and variability are known exactly. We formulate a robust chance constrained (RCC) OPF that accounts for uncertainty in the parameters of these probability distributions by allowing them to be within an uncertainty set. The RCC OPF is solved using a cutting-plane algorithm that scales to large power systems. We demonstrate the RRC OPF on a modified model of the Bonneville Power Administration network, which includes 2209 buses and 176 controllable generators. In conclusion, deterministic, chance constrained (CC), and RCC OPF formulations are compared using several metrics including cost of generation, area control error, ramping of controllable generators, and occurrence of transmission line overloads as well as the respective computational performance.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1329591
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-22280
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 31, Issue 5; ISSN 0885-8950
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 128 works
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Chance-Constrained OPF Based on Polynomials Approximation and Cornish–Fisher Expansion journal January 2020
SR-based chance-constrained economic dispatch for power systems with wind power journal July 2019
A Survey of Real-Time Optimal Power Flow journal November 2018

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