A dynamic model for coordination of generation and transmission expansion planning in power systems

This paper presents a new dynamic approach on the expansion planning problem in power systems. First, the coordination between generation system expansion and transmission system expansion has been formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem. Then, it has been shown that this MINLP model cannot be efficiently solved by the traditional MINLP solvers. Since the nonlinear term comes from the multiplication of a binary variable by a continuous one, a Benders decomposition approach has been employed to convert the MINLP formulation into a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) master problem, and a linear programming (LP) sub-problem. Besides, different times of construction have been considered for different transmission and generation facilities. In addition, a clustering based algorithm has been proposed to evaluate the reliability of the system at hierarchical level II (HLII). Since this dynamic planning method is an upgraded version of a recent developed static model, the result from both methods have been also compared. A simple 6-bus test system and IEEE 30-bus system have been selected to confirm the effectiveness of the introduced method. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.