Background:The increasing penetration of a massive number of plug-in electric vehicles(PEVs)and distributed generators(DGs)into current power distribution networks imposes obvious challenges on power distribution netw...Background:The increasing penetration of a massive number of plug-in electric vehicles(PEVs)and distributed generators(DGs)into current power distribution networks imposes obvious challenges on power distribution network operation.Methods:This paper presents an optimal temporal-spatial scheduling strategy of PEV charging demand in the presence of DGs.The solution is designed to ensure the reliable and secure operation of the active power distribution networks,the randomness introduced by PEVs and DGs can be managed through the appropriate scheduling of the PEV charging demand,as the PEVs can be considered as mobile energy storage units.Results:As a result,the charging demands of PEVs are optimally scheduled temporally and spatially,which can improve the DG utilization efficiency as well as reduce the charging cost under real-time pricing(RTP).Conclusions:The proposed scheduling strategy is evaluated through a series of simulations and the numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness and the benefits of the proposed solution.展开更多
A substation planning method that accounts for the widespread introduction of distributed generators(DGs)in a low-carbon economy is proposed.With the proliferation of DGs,the capacity that DGs contribute to the distri...A substation planning method that accounts for the widespread introduction of distributed generators(DGs)in a low-carbon economy is proposed.With the proliferation of DGs,the capacity that DGs contribute to the distribution network has become increasingly important.The capacity of a DG is expressed as a capacity credit(CC)that can be evaluated according to the principle that the reliability index is unchanged before and after the introduction of the DG.A method that employs a weighted Voronoi diagram is proposed for substation planning considering CC.A low-carbon evaluation objective function is added to the substation planning model to evaluate the contribution of DGs to a low-carbon economy.A case study is analyzed to demonstrate the practicality of the proposed method.展开更多
基金The National Key Research and Development Program of China(Basic Research Class 2017YFB0903000)Basic Theories and Methods of Analysis and Control of the Cyber Physical Systems for Power Grid,and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(LZ15E070001).
文摘Background:The increasing penetration of a massive number of plug-in electric vehicles(PEVs)and distributed generators(DGs)into current power distribution networks imposes obvious challenges on power distribution network operation.Methods:This paper presents an optimal temporal-spatial scheduling strategy of PEV charging demand in the presence of DGs.The solution is designed to ensure the reliable and secure operation of the active power distribution networks,the randomness introduced by PEVs and DGs can be managed through the appropriate scheduling of the PEV charging demand,as the PEVs can be considered as mobile energy storage units.Results:As a result,the charging demands of PEVs are optimally scheduled temporally and spatially,which can improve the DG utilization efficiency as well as reduce the charging cost under real-time pricing(RTP).Conclusions:The proposed scheduling strategy is evaluated through a series of simulations and the numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness and the benefits of the proposed solution.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51477116).
文摘A substation planning method that accounts for the widespread introduction of distributed generators(DGs)in a low-carbon economy is proposed.With the proliferation of DGs,the capacity that DGs contribute to the distribution network has become increasingly important.The capacity of a DG is expressed as a capacity credit(CC)that can be evaluated according to the principle that the reliability index is unchanged before and after the introduction of the DG.A method that employs a weighted Voronoi diagram is proposed for substation planning considering CC.A low-carbon evaluation objective function is added to the substation planning model to evaluate the contribution of DGs to a low-carbon economy.A case study is analyzed to demonstrate the practicality of the proposed method.
