Data-Driven Risk-Adjusted Robust Energy Management for Microgrids Integrating Demand Response Aggregator and Renewable Energies

Abstract

Microgrids, integrating user-side demand response and zero marginal cost renewable energies, are potential components for future smart grids to reduce carbon emissions and improve power system resilience. In this paper, a day-ahead microgrid energy management framework with demand response aggregator as an intermediate coordinator is developed. The corresponding scheduling strategy is obtained to maximize the social welfare of the microgrid system, with considering the privacy of end-users and the uncertainty of renewable energies. To this end, firstly, a accelerated distributed optimization method based on Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers, named as FAST-PP-ADMM, is developed to protect the end-users privacy and improve the scalability of the microgrid system. Secondly, a data-driven risk-adjusted uncertain set is constructed with a distributionally robust chance-constraints model to characterize the forecast error of renewable energies. Based on the constructed uncertain set, a two-stage robust microgrid-side energy management model is solved by using the column-and-constraint generation (C&CG) method. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed energy management framework and scheduling strategy is verified by simulations.