The economic power-dispatching model of a multi-microgrid is comprehensively established in this paper, considering many factors, such as generation cost, discharge cost, power-purchase cost, power sales revenue, and environmental cost. To construct...
Based on the operation characteristics of each dispatch unit, a multi-objective hierarchical Microgrid (MG) economic dispatch strategy with load level, source-load level, and source-grid-load level is proposed in this paper. The objective functions c...
As fossil energy is increasingly depleted, promoting the integration of renewable energy into the grid and improving its utilization rate has become an irresistible development trend in China’s power industry. However, the volatility of wind po...
Combined heat and power (CHP) plants have opportunities to work as distributed power generation for providing heat and power demand. Furthermore, CHP plants contribute effectively to overcoming the intermittence of renewable energy sources as well as...
To address the challenges of climate change mitigation and operational flexibility in active distribution networks (ADNs) amid high renewable energy penetration, this paper proposes a low-carbon economic dispatch framework integrating demand-side car...
The fundamental objective of economic load dispatch is to operate the available generating units such that the needed load demand satisfies the lowest generation cost and also complies with the various constraints. With proper power system operation...
Aiming at the problem that the current dynamic economic dispatch (DED) fails to consider the response risk of spinning reserve caused by the fluctuation and uncertainty of wind power, we work out a DED problem considering time-coupling spinning reser...
Co-generation units (i.e., combined heat and power plants—CHPs) are playing an important role in fulfilling the heat and power demand in the energy system. Due to the depletion of fossil fuels and rising carbon footprints in the environment, it is ne...
Actuators play a crucial role in modern distributed electric grids and renewable energy network architectures, implementing control actions based on sensor data to ensure optimal system performance and stability. This paper addresses the economic dis...
Economic dispatch (ED) attempts to find the most cost-effective combination of power generation units while meeting operational constraints. Another problem that can’t be resolved by standard economic dispatch problems is figuring out the metho...
Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is a complicated and demanding problem for power engineers. ELD relates to the minimization of the economic cost of production, thereby allocating the produced power by each unit in the most possible economic manner. In r...
Most power is generated using fossil fuels like coal, natural gas, and diesel. The contribution of coal to power generation is very high compared to other sources. Almost all thermal power plants use coal as a fuel for power generation. Such sources...
Economic dispatch using wind power plants plays a role in reducing the price of electricity production by dispatching power among different generating units for thermal and wind power plants, and supplying load demand while meeting the power system e...
The cooperative, reliable and responsive characteristics make smart grid more popular than traditional power grid. However, with the extensive employment of smart grid concepts, the traditional centralized control methods expose a lot of shortcomings...
The traditional consensus-based distributed economic dispatch strategy may lose system convergency and cause imbalanced power when facing an information attack on the individual power generation unit; thus, it is unable to achieve the dispatching goa...
In this paper, a distributed randomized gradient-free algorithm (DRGF) is employed to solve the complex non-convex economic dispatch problem whose non-convex constraints include valve-point loading effects, prohibited operating zones, and multiple fu...
The integration of renewable generation adds complexity to the operation of the power system due to its unpredictable characteristics. Therefore, the development of methods to accurately model the uncertainty is necessary. In this paper, the spatio-t...
This paper proposes a multi-objective load dispatch algorithm based on economic predictive control to solve the real-time multi-objective load dispatch problem of biomass heat and power cogeneration. According to the energy conservation law and produ...
This paper presents an online economic re-dispatch scheme based on the generation cost optimization with security constraints to mitigate line overloads before and after line and generation contingencies. The proposed optimization model considers sim...
A multi-area power system requires coordination to enhance reliability and reduce operating costs. Economic dispatch in such systems is crucial because of the uncertainties associated with variable loads and the increasing penetration of renewable en...
The benefits of a distributed economic dispatch system include significant resilience, uniform processing and communication pressure, and good scalability, but, currently, there is limited in-depth research on the impact of packet loss on the communi...
With the rapid development of the new concept of energy internet, electric power systems often need to be investigated together with thermal energy systems. Additionally, to reduce pollution from gas emissions, it is very important to study the econo...
With the increasing penetration of new and renewable energy, incorporating variable adjustable power elements on the demand side is of particular interest. The utilization of batteries as flexible loads is a hot research topic. Lithium-ion batteries...
The inclusion of microgrids (MGs) in power systems, especially distribution-substation-level MGs, significantly affects power systems because of the large volumes of import and export power flows. Consequently, power dispatch has become complicated,...
The optimal dispatching of renewable energy power stations is particularly crucial in scenarios where the stations face energy rationing due to the large proportion of renewable energy integrated into the power system. In order to achieve safe, econo...
This article presents an optimized approach to battery sizing and economic dispatch in wind-powered microgrids. The primary focus is on integrating battery depth of discharge (DoD) constraints to prolong battery life and ensure cost-effective energy...
With the large scale and high proportion of distributed generation connected to the power grid, the distributed economic dispatch system has attracted more attention because of its significant advantages. However, the distributed economic dispatch sy...
Advance in renewable penetration has promoted the interaction between the AC and DC power system and multi-energy sources. However, the disparate nature of different energy utilization technologies presents strong challenges for the economic dispatch...
A multi-stage robust real-time economic dispatch model (MRRTD) for power systems is proposed in this paper. The MRRTD takes the dynamic form of multi-stage robust optimization as the framework to naturally simulate the operation of equipment that is...
A microgrid cluster is composed of multiple interconnected microgrids and operates in the form of cluster, which can realize energy complementation between microgrids and significantly improve their renewable energy consumption capacity and system op...
The renewable energy sources (RESs)-based economic dispatch problem (EDP) is of vital importance for modern power systems. Environmental pollution, climatic degradation, and rapidly growing prices of continuously depleting fossil fuels have encourage...
In this study, the economic dispatch problems, which are indispensable in electrical engineering, are addressed utilizing Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO). Conventional mathematical methods struggle to provide quick, reliable solutions to nonlinear probl...
Economic dispatch (ED) problems, especially in multi-area power networks, have been challenging concerns for power system operators for several decades. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for solving the multiobjective multi-area dynamic ED...
The shift toward decentralized energy systems and the rapid growth of renewable integration have brought renewed attention to the Multi-Area Economic Dispatch (MAED) problem. Unlike single-area dispatch, which focuses only on local balance, MAED must...
A microgrid (MG) is one of the most efficient ways to cope with the grid-connection of a large number of small-sized distributed energy resources. This paper presents a consensus-based fully distributed economic dispatch (ED) strategy for MGs, with t...
Recently, different metaheuristic techniques, their variants, and hybrid forms have been extensively used to solve economic load dispatch (ELD) problems with and without valve point loading (VPL) effects. Due to the randomization involved in these me...
In this paper, a distributed economic dispatch scheme considering power limit is proposed to minimize the total active power generation cost in a droop-based autonomous direct current (DC) microgrid. The economical dispatch of the microgrid is realiz...
The paper studies a new distributed control method to solve the economic dispatch problem (EDP) under directed topology based on consensus protocol. Electrical equipment is closely related to frequency, and the frequency of each generator varies inde...
Due to the high penetration of virtual power plants (VPPs), the bi-directional power flow between VPPs and active distribution grids makes the grid operation complex. Without congestion management, the operation schedule only considers the economic b...
In this article, we present a modification to the Economic Dispatch (ED) model that addresses the non-convex nature of the cost curves associated with a Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP). Incorporating a binary variable provides greater precision in...
To address the problem of the supply–demand imbalance caused by network transmission losses in integrated power and heating systems (IPHS), this paper presents an optimal economic dispatch strategy to minimize system operation cost and realize...
For power retailers in a smart grid, it is necessary to design an economic dispatch method to maintain a balance between power supply and demand on the sale side as well as obtain better economic benefits. This study concentrates on the economic disp...
A modified particle swarm optimization and incorporated chaotic search to solve economic dispatch problems for smooth and non-smooth cost functions, considering prohibited operating zones and valve-point effects is proposed in this paper. An inertia...
Due to the opening of the energy market and agreements for the reduction of pollution emissions, the use of microgrids attracts more attention in the scientific community, but the management of the distribution of electricity has new challenges. This...
Inadequate gas supply is partly responsible for the energy shortfall experienced in some energy-poor nations. Favorable market conditions would boost investment in the gas supply sector; hence, we propose a blockchain-based fair, transparent, and sec...
Based on the characteristics of electric vehicles (EVs), this paper establishes the load models of EVs under the autonomous charging mode and the coordinated charging and discharging mode. Integrating the EVs into a microgrid system which includes wi...
The dynamic economic dispatch (DED) problem is a typical complex constrained optimization problem with non-smooth, nonlinear, and nonconvex characteristics, especially considering practical situations such as valve point effects and transmission loss...
The conventional electrical power system economic dispatch (ED) often only pursues immediate economic benefits but neglects the harmful environment impacts of gas emissions from thermal power plants. To address this shortfall, economic emission dispa...
In order to maintain the stability and security of the power system, the uncertainty and intermittency of wind power must be taken into account in economic dispatch (ED) problems. In this paper, a dynamic economic dispatch (DED) model based on chance...
A concentrated solar power (CSP) plant with energy storage systems has excellent scheduling flexibility and superiority to traditional thermal power generation systems. In this paper, the operation mechanism and operational constraints of the CSP pla...
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