Publication Date:
2016-03-01
Description:
To handle the challenges created by the integration of large-scale wind power for the normal operations of power systems, the development of bundled wind-thermal generation systems (BWTGSs) is now being considered in China. This paper proposes a two-stage optimal planning method to determine the optimal scheme of matched thermal generating units (TGUs) in a BWTGS and the optimal load that the BWTGS should take. In the first stage, a basic optimization model taking into account the operation characteristics of BWTGS and the load pattern of the receiving power system is constituted to obtain the optimal TGU scheme. In the second stage, a heuristic method called the window search method is designed to optimize the base load of the BWTGS and further reduce the system unit generation cost. Numerical analyses demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Electronic ISSN:
1941-7012
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
