An enhanced stochastic optimization for more flexibility on integrated energy system with flexible loads and a high penetration level of renewables

Mou Wu, Rujing Yan, Jing Zhang, Junqiu Fan, Jiangjiang Wang, Zhang Bai, Yu He, Guoqiang Cao and Keling Hu

Renewable Energy, 2024, vol. 227, issue C

Abstract: Full utilization of the potential regulation ability of flexible loads in an integrated energy system (IES) and expanding its structure for more flexibility via integrating auxiliary devices is the key to realizing its high-efficiency operation and high-proportion renewable consumption. The present paper builds the flexible regulation models of thermal and electrical loads and introduces them to the structure expansion planning of IES. A two-stage stochastic probability optimization method integrating the uncertain operation of introducing flexible loads is then proposed to balance the additional costs of device integration and the benefits of performance promotion. Herein, an enhanced sample average approximation based on a stochastic hierarchy scenario generation method is developed to solve the optimization. The regulation mechanisms of flexible loads and their influence on expansion planning are then analyzed by comparing the optimized results. The results show that the path to decreasing the cost via introducing flexible thermal and electrical loads into optimization is increasing renewable consumption and coordinating an increment in renewable consumption and average electrical efficiency, respectively. The regulation between them has synergism on cost reduction and saturation on increasing renewable consumption. The synergism can reduce the cost by 0.62 %. Besides, there is a synergism between electric boiler integration and flexible loads, which further reduces the total cost of the expanded IES by 24.86 %.

Keywords: Integrated energy systems; Renewable energy consumption; Energy flexibility; Flexible loads; Energy structure expansion optimization; Enhanced sample average approximation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2024.120502

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