Abstract

The installation of energy storage system (ESS) is increased to solve the instability of the transmission system due to variable renewable energies such as Photovoltaic power generation (PV) and wind power generation. Meanwhile, recently, PV output is frequently curtailed since PV output produced after the ESS charging is finished causes transmission line congestion. For this congestion, it is common to increase line capacity or allocate the output curtailment for each power plant. However, since the unsettled loss occurs due to the output curtailment, the power plant operator should be given an incentive to induce the output curtailment for a specific time. Therefore, in this paper, the ESS optimal operation scheduling using the demand response transaction mechanism as an incentive is presented. From the perspective of PV operator with ESS, the charge/discharge capacity is determined in units of 15 minutes reflecting the PV curtailment and the demand response trading mechanism through mixed-integer linear programming. Uncertainty in the D-Day actual PV power output is considered as three scenarios such as Day-ahead forecasting PV power output and Day-ahead forecasting PV power output scenario with mean absolute percentage errors. Through optimal operation scheduling of ESS, transmission line overload and system congestion are suppressed by ESS charging and PV operators can secure additional benefits through the demand response trading mechanism without PV curtailment. Namely, total expected benefits can be maximized by the proposed method. As a result, an additional expansion of transmission lines or the introduction of a new incentive system can be avoided by the flexibility of PV operators.

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