The Engineering Application of Improved Alternating Direction Method for Solving Power Systems Multi-Area Dispatch Problem

Abstract

The alternating direction method has been widespread used to solve multi-area economic dispatch problem. Compared with traditional centered economic dispatch, alternating direction method divides centered optimal problem into completely independent sub-problems while the corresponding equality and inequality constraints are satisfied. However, plenty of applications show that the choice of penalty parameter for the consistency constraint has an important influence on the convergence performance of alternating direction method. In this paper, we proposed a novel improved alternating direction method. To be more exact, the key is to adjust penalty parameter based on iterative information of alternating direction method. Numerical results illustrate the proposed method has better stability in convergence.