Three-Phase Unbalanced Distribution Network Dynamic Reconfiguration: A Distributionally Robust Approach

The active distribution network has witnessed an increasing penetration of distributed generation (DG) while the stochasticity and variability arising from DGs also impose significant challenges on system operation. To mightily accommodate the uncertainty of DG, we introduce a distributionally robust chance-constrained dynamic reconfiguration approach for a three-phase unbalanced distribution network. The proposed framework optimizes the switching cost and the expected power supply cost from upstream grid, and stipulates that the chance constraints hold under the worst-case distribution within a novel ambiguity set, which incorporates the Wasserstein distance and the first-order moment. Then we develop tractable and scalable solution methods to tackle the expected objective function and chance constraints. As a result, the proposed model is reduced to a mixed-integer linear programming problem that can readily be implemented. Numerical experiments are carried out on the IEEE 34-bus and 123-bus test systems to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the suggested approach.

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This paper introduces a distributionally robust chance-constrained dynamic reconfiguration approach for a three-phase unbalanced distribution network, which can effectively accommodate the uncertainty caused by distributed generation.