A Reliability Assessment Approach for Integrated Community Energy System Based on Hierarchical Decoupling Optimization Framework

This paper presents a reliability assessment approach for Integrated Community Energy System (ICES). The complex energy couplings and interactions in the ICES is simulated by the energy hub model, which connects electricity, gas and heat systems. The quasi-sequential Monte Carlo simulation technique is utilized to select the system state of ICES. A hierarchical decoupling optimization framework is then implemented to calculate the energy loss after outage occurs. Case studies show that the proposed method can accurately evaluate the reliability of ICES.