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Title: Optimizing design and dispatch of a renewable energy system with combined heat and power

Journal Article · · Optimization and Engineering

We embellish a mixed-integer program that prescribes a set of renewable energy, conventional generation, and storage technologies to procure, along with a corresponding dispatch strategy. Specifically, we add combined heat and power to this set. The model minimizes fixed and operational costs less incentives for the use of various technologies, subject to a series of component interoperability and system-wide constraints. The resulting mixed-integer linear program contains hundreds of thousands of variables and constraints. We demonstrate how to efficiently formulate and solve the corresponding instances such that we produce near-optimal solutions in minutes. A previous rendition of the model required hours of solution time for the same instances.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Federal Energy Management Program Office; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office
Grant/Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1843353
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5700-79097; MainId:33323; UUID:661a144a-c264-4740-b9f5-f09783d4b604; MainAdminID:63713
Journal Information:
Optimization and Engineering, Journal Name: Optimization and Engineering Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 23; ISSN 1389-4420
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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