Day‐ahead scheduling of integrated electricity and district heating system with an aggregated model of buildings for wind power accommodation

Abstract

In traditional integrated electricity and district heating systems, the inflexible operation of combined heat and power units leads to a large amount of wind power curtailments during winter. The thermal inertia of aggregated buildings can provide additional operational flexibility to promote wind power accommodation. In this study, a day-ahead scheduling model for integrated electricity and district heating system considering the thermal inertia of buildings is proposed. In this work, the operation model of the district heating network under constant mass flow and variable temperature operation strategy is presented, and the aggregated model of buildings based on the detailed thermal model of buildings is established. Then, the scheduling framework is analysed and the day-ahead scheduling model is formulated as quadratic programming problem to minimise the operation cost of integrated electricity and district heating system. The validity of the proposed model is verified by the case studies performed on a 6-bus power system with a 6-node heating system and IEEE 39-bus electricity system with a 16-node heating system. The results demonstrate that the thermal inertia of buildings can provide additional operational flexibility and effectively help reduce wind power curtailment and operation costs.