Decomposition and coordination calculation of economic dispatch for active distribution network with multi-microgrids

With the development of the active distribution system with multi-microgrids, increasingly numbers of distributed energy resources are integrated into the distribution network through multi-microgrids. As a result, the economic dispatch problem presents high dimensional complexity. Hence, this paper proposes a decomposition and coordination calculation method to reduce the computational dimension and improve the calculation accuracy. In this paper, the active distribution system with multi-microgrids is divided into two parts: one is the outer power grid and the other is the inner power grid, and the optimal value is obtained by applying the differential evolution algorithm. To improve the efficiency of the traditional network loss calculation, the network loss sensitivity is adopted to calculate the network loss. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, the test model is constructed based on the IEEE 33 node and 69 node distribution systems. The simulation results show that the proposed method can obtain the global optimal solution, and its economy is better than the overall centralized calculation method. This method is conducive to the subsequent application in the actual power grid system.

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This paper proposes a decomposition and coordination calculation method to reduce the computational dimension and improve the calculation accuracy in the active distribution system with multi-microgrids. The system is divided into outer and inner power grids, with optimal values obtained using the differential evolution algorithm. The use of network loss sensitivity for loss calculation improves efficiency, and simulation results show the method can achieve global optimal solution with better economy compared to centralized calculation methods.