Energy Commitment for a Power System Supplied by Multiple Energy Carriers System using Following Optimization Algorithm
, Mohammad Mardaneh 1, Om Parkash Malik 2, Josep M. Guerrero 3, Ruben Morales-Menendez 4, Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza 4,*, José Matas 5 and Abdullah Abusorrah 6Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The energy focuses on the idea of Energy Commitment (EC) with the purpose of setting a pattern for the use of energy carriers to supply energy demand, considering technical and economic constraints. The authors considered that EC is a constrained optimization problem that can be solved by using optimization methods. This study suggests the Following Optimization Algorithm (FOA) to solve the EC problem to achieve technical and economic benefits with the minimization energy supply costs for total study period is considered as objective function.
The paper is quite interesting, however, there are several issues which must be improved and corrected.
- In the abstract, please also mention the quantitative results, not only qualitative explanation. Therefore, the readers can understand and justify accurately the content of the research.
- The novelty of the paper needs to be clearly define, including the difference with other previous works. It also includes the problems faced by other previous works, leading to the importance of the current study.
- In the proposed EC, did you also consider the respond time required by each energy storage/carriers ?
- Detailed explanation and difference of EC with other methods are required. It seems that the proposed EC is very wide, resulting in unclear optimization of the target.
- Can also you show the effect of EC to the emitted CO2? Or do you have any objective function to minimize CO2?
- To improve the correlation and relationship of the study with the previous works and available literature, additional references are required. Below are several works which are strongly recommended.
- Mitani, T.; Aziz, M.; Oda, T.; Uetsuji, A.; Watanabe, Y.; Kashiwagi, T. Annual Assessment of Large-Scale Introduction of Renewable Energy: Modeling of Unit Commitment Schedule for Thermal Power Generators and Pumped Storages. Energies 2017, 10, 738.
- Suazo-Martínez, C.; Pereira-Bonvallet, E.; Palma-Behnke, R. A Simulation Framework for Optimal Energy Storage Sizing. Energies 2014, 7, 3033-3055.
- Ju, Y.; Wang, J.; Ge, F.; Lin, Y.; Dong, M.; Li, D.; Shi, K.; Zhang, H. Unit Commitment Accommodating Large Scale Green Power. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 1611.
Author Response
Energy Commitment for a Power System Supplied by a Multiple Energy Carriers System using Following Optimization Algorithm
Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey NL, 64,489, Mexico
11-Aug-2020
Applied Sciences Editorial Office
The authors appreciate dear Editor-in-Chief, managing editor, MDPI
Assistant Editor, and the respected reviewers for the carefully consideration and useful comments on the paper. It surely improves the quality of the paper. The paper is revised according to the recommendation and comments given in the decision letter. In the following, the authors' answers and list of changes are presented according to the comments. It must be noted, these modifications are highlighted in the paper.
Best regards
Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
Email: ricardo.ramirez@tec.mx
In attached file, you can find details on your recommendation and comments. Thank you again.
Author Response File: 
Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
The overall research presented in the paper is dealing with a complex issue of optimizing the supply from a different energy carriers. Although very complex, the problem is simplified in many ways, neglecting a lot of important issues that exist in today's world, like the spot market, wholesale market, retail business, role of infrastructure operators vs energy producers and suppliers. Those concerns should be clarified by the authors, preferably in the article.
Sectors are the systems consisting from a lot of various subsystems and actors, not always acting in the same way. The authors should think how to include a renewables and multi-energy storage systems into their research. This way some more novelty should be implemented into the presented problem.
Author Response
Energy Commitment for a Power System Supplied by a Multiple Energy Carriers System using Following Optimization Algorithm
Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey NL, 64,489, Mexico
11-Aug-2020
Applied Sciences Editorial Office
The authors appreciate dear Editor-in-Chief, managing editor, MDPI
Assistant Editor, and the respected reviewers for the carefully consideration and useful comments on the paper. It surely improves the quality of the paper. The paper is revised according to the recommendation and comments given in the decision letter. In the following, the authors' answers and list of changes are presented according to the comments. It must be noted, these modifications are highlighted in the paper.
Best regards
Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza
Email: ricardo.ramirez@tec.mx
In attached file, you can find your recommendations and comment, thanks again.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors have sufficiently improved and corrected the manuscript, as well as answered the questions.
Reviewer 2 Report
No further comments.
