Advanced technologies, a world-wide trend to deregulation of power systems and environmental constraints have attracted increasing interest in the operation of electric power systems with multiple storage resources. Under the competitive pressure of the deregulation, new efficient solution techniques to adapt quickly to the changing marketplace are in demand. This thesis presents a new evolutionary method, Constructive Evolutionary Programming (CEP), for minimising the system operational cost of scheduling electric power systems with multiple storage resources. The method combines the advantages of Constructive Dynamic Programming and Evolutionary Programming. Instead of evolving the "primal" variables such as storage content releases and thermal generator outputs, CEP evolves the piecewise linear convex cost-to-go functions (i.e. the storage content value curves). The multi-stage problem of multi-storage power system scheduling is thus decomposed into many smaller one-stage subproblems with evolved cost-to-go functions. For each evolutionary individual, linear programming is used in the forward pass process to solve the dispatch subproblems and the total system operational cost over the scheduling period is assigned to its fitness. Case studies demonstrate that the proposed method is robust and efficient for multi-storage power systems, particularly large complex hydrothermal system with cascaded and pumped storages. Although the proposed method is in the early stage of development, relying on assumptions of piecewise linear convexity in a deterministic environment, methods for the incorporation of stochastic models, electrical network and nonlinear, non-convex and non-smooth models are discussed. In addition, a number of possible improvements are also outlined. Due to its simplicity but robustness and efficiency, there are potential research directions for the further development of this evolutionary optimisation method.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/234317 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Thai, Cau Doan Hoang, Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW |
| Publisher | Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Cau Doan Hoang Thai, http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/copyright |
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