Journal
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2023.114049
Keywords
Hybrid microgrid; Capacity investment planning; Energy management system; Dynamic multi -period and multi-timescale de; cision -making; Multi-timescale uncertainty; Green hydrogen
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This article discusses the importance of renewable energy in the global energy mix and the challenges of long-term deployment planning. To address uncertainties in technologies and market dynamics, a solution using energy storage and power-to-hydrogen systems in conjunction with energy management systems is proposed. We also demonstrate the applicability of Markov decision processes and simulation-based reinforcement learning for multi-period capacity investments.
Given the steep rises in renewable energy's proportion in the global energy mix expected over several decades, a systematic way to plan the long-term deployment is needed. The main challenges are how to handle the sig-nificant uncertainties in technologies and market dynamics over a large time horizon. The problem is further complicated by the fast-timescale volatility of renewable energy sources, potentially causing grid instability and unfulfilled demands. As a remedy, energy storage and power-to-hydrogen systems are considered in conjunction with energy management system but doing so raises the complexity of the planning problem further. In this work, the long-term capacity planning for a hybrid microgrid (HM) system is formulated as a multi-period stochastic decision problem that considers uncertainties occurring at multiple timescales. Long-term capacity decisions are inherently linked with energy dispatch and storage decisions occurring at fast-timescale and it is best to solve for them simultaneously. However, the computational demand for solving it becomes quickly intractable with problem size. To this end, we propose to develop a Markov decision process (MDP) formulation of the problem and use simulation-based reinforcement learning for multi-period capacity investments of the planning horizon. The MDP includes the policies used for dispatch and storage operation, which are represented by linear programming as a part of the simulation model. The effectiveness of our proposed method is demonstrated with a case study, where decisions over multiple decades are considered along with various un-certainties of multi-timescales. Economic and environmental assessments are performed, providing valuable guidelines for government's energy policy.
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