Stochastic Unit Commitment in Isolated Systems With Renewable Penetration Under CVaR Assessment

Isolated regions and islands are facing imported fossil-fuel dependency, higher electricity prices, and vulnerability to climate change. At the same time, they are increasing their renewable penetration and, therefore, risk for electric utilities. Integrating stochastic energy resources in noninterconnected systems may take advantage of an intelligent and optimized risk-averse unit commitment (UC) model. This paper presents a two-stage stochastic UC model with high renewable penetration including reserve requirements for the efficient management of uncertainty. In order to account for the uncertainty around the true outcomes of load, wind, and photovoltaic (PV) generation, a minimum conditional value at risk term has been included in the model formulation. A stochastic measure of the value of the stochastic solution is used to evaluate the benefits of using stochastic programming. The model considers the need for reserves dependent on the forecasting horizon and the amount of renewable generation. Active power demand, and wind and PV generations are considered as probability distribution functions. The model is applied to the Lanzarote-Fuerteventura system in the Canary Islands, Spain, and Crete, Greece.