Stochastic Unit Commitment Based on Energy-intensive Load Participating
in Wind and Solar Power Consumption
Abstract
The fluctuation and intermittency of the wind and solar power outputs
results in the regulation pressure of thermal units in power systems.
The adjustable energy-intensive loads (such as the Electrolytic
aluminium and Steel plants) have great potentialities to participate in
demand response (DR) programs. This paper proposes an optimal scheduling
method of the unit commitment (UC) with the consideration of the
energy-intensive loads participating in wind and solar power
consumption. It adopts the nonparametric kernel density estimation
method to model the wind and solar power outputs. And then it uses
Frank-Copula function to describe the correlation between the scenarios
of wind and solar power outputs. A stochastic unit commitment (SUC)
model introduces chance constrained theory of the reserve coefficient to
describe time-variant scenarios, on the basis of the deviation between
the typical and simulative scenarios. The simulation results based on
IEEE 118-bus system shows that the energy-intensive load in the SUC
model can flexibly adjust and respond to the change of wind and solar
power output, reduce the impact of wind and solar power output’s
uncertainty and promote the consumption of wind and solar power.