Quick-start generation units are critical devices and flexible resources to ensure a high penetration level of renewable energy in power systems.By considering the wind uncertainty and both binary and continuous decis...Quick-start generation units are critical devices and flexible resources to ensure a high penetration level of renewable energy in power systems.By considering the wind uncertainty and both binary and continuous decisions of quickstart generation units within the intraday dispatch,we develop a Wasserstein-metric-based distributionally robust optimization model for the day-ahead network-constrained unit commitment(NCUC)problem with mixed-integer recourse.We propose two feasible frameworks for solving the optimization problem.One approximates the continuous support of random wind power with a finite number of events,and the other leverages the extremal distributions instead.Both solution frameworks rely on the classic nested column-and-constraint generation(C&CG)method.It is shown that due to the sparsity of L_(1)-norm Wasserstein metric,the continuous support of wind power generation could be represented by a discrete one with a small number of events,and the rendered extremal distributions are sparse as well.With this reduction,the distributionally robust NCUC model with complicated mixed-integer recourse problems can be efficiently handled by both solution frameworks.Numerical studies are carried out,demonstrating that the model considering quick-start generation units ensures unit commitment(UC)schedules to be more robust and cost-effective,and the distributionally robust optimization method captures the wind uncertainty well in terms of out-of-sample tests.展开更多
基金supported by the Guangdong R&D Program in Key Areas (No.2021B0101230004)supported in part by the U.S.National Science Foundation (No.CMMI-1635472)supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51937005)。
文摘Quick-start generation units are critical devices and flexible resources to ensure a high penetration level of renewable energy in power systems.By considering the wind uncertainty and both binary and continuous decisions of quickstart generation units within the intraday dispatch,we develop a Wasserstein-metric-based distributionally robust optimization model for the day-ahead network-constrained unit commitment(NCUC)problem with mixed-integer recourse.We propose two feasible frameworks for solving the optimization problem.One approximates the continuous support of random wind power with a finite number of events,and the other leverages the extremal distributions instead.Both solution frameworks rely on the classic nested column-and-constraint generation(C&CG)method.It is shown that due to the sparsity of L_(1)-norm Wasserstein metric,the continuous support of wind power generation could be represented by a discrete one with a small number of events,and the rendered extremal distributions are sparse as well.With this reduction,the distributionally robust NCUC model with complicated mixed-integer recourse problems can be efficiently handled by both solution frameworks.Numerical studies are carried out,demonstrating that the model considering quick-start generation units ensures unit commitment(UC)schedules to be more robust and cost-effective,and the distributionally robust optimization method captures the wind uncertainty well in terms of out-of-sample tests.