Convexification Technique for Optimal Thermal-Wind-Photovoltaic Coordination Dispatch Incorporating an Energy Storage System

This paper proposes a solution to implementing acoordinated optimal day-ahead dispatch in a hybrid thermalwind-photovoltaic power system incorporating an energy storagesystem (ESS). Our aim is to minimize total generation costand restrain the frequent change of ESS charging/dischargingstatus while meeting a series of system operating constraints,including a proposed coordinated dispatch strategy for thepurpose of reducing thermal power fluctuations. A novel twostage convexification technique (TSCT) is designed and leveragedto convert the original non-convex optimal day-ahead dispatchmodel, without taking into account the constraints of the proposed coordinated dispatch strategy into two convex quadraticprogramming problems. When introducing the constraint ofthe coordinated dispatch strategy, the corresponding inequalityconstraints are transformed into a series of linear equalityconstraints, after which the original optimal day-ahead dispatchmodel can be solved by the TSCT mentioned above. Finally,numerical simulations and comparative analysis are performedon the IEEE standard test systems to verify the validity andeffectiveness of the proposed model and method.