Fast Method to the Unit Scheduling of Power Systems with Renewable Power Sources

Modelling wind power uncertainty is a critic aspect in the optimal management of power systems with high integration of this renewable resource. It is typically carried out by considering a limited number of representative scenarios that incorporate relevant properties such as hourly auto-correlation and diurnal forecasting profile. Considering a large amount of scenarios improves the wind power modelling, but increases the computational effort. To deal with this problem, a method to incorporate a big set of scenarios in stochastic unit commitment (UC) problem is presented in this paper. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is evaluated by means of the analysis of a case study and the results are compared to those obtained from a stochastic programming method, concluding that the method presented in this paper offers an approximated solution in a reduced computational time.

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