Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence

In order to fully utilize the clean, flexible and economic characteristics of distributed energy(DE), it is needed to efficiently manage its comprehensive and flexible regulation characteristics. However, directly embedding the virtual power plant(VPP) model into the main grid scheduling is prone to...

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Main Authors: Rui ZHU, Yiding OU, Xiaotian LI, Xingyu LEI, Yuqing ZHOU, Poyang ZHANG, Rui OU
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Published: State Grid Energy Research Institute 2024-01-01
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Online Access:https://www.electricpower.com.cn/CN/10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202310002
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Yiding OU
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Xingyu LEI
Yuqing ZHOU
Poyang ZHANG
Rui OU
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description In order to fully utilize the clean, flexible and economic characteristics of distributed energy(DE), it is needed to efficiently manage its comprehensive and flexible regulation characteristics. However, directly embedding the virtual power plant(VPP) model into the main grid scheduling is prone to the risk of privacy leakage and great computational burden of different energy entities. Therefore, it is necessary to aggregate the multi-category flexibility resources of VPP to calculate their equivalent external characteristics. To this end, this article proposes a VPP flexibility characterization method based on vertex search, which aggregates various flexibility within the VPP into the output power of the VPP nodes, whose mathematical essence is the projection of a high-dimensional flexibility space to a low-dimensional space. Then, by introducing the extrapolation-based vertex search method, we achieve the approximation of the projection by maximizing the Euclidean distance between hyperplanes. Finally, based on the flexibility equivalence method, we propose an evaluation method for VPP flexibility resources to explain the main grid operation cost and optimal solution changes before and after the VPP access from a geometric perspective. The case study shows that the proposed flexibility aggregation model can effectively reduce the operating cost of the main grids, and the proposed VPP value assessment method based on external characteristic equivalence can effectively evaluate the value generated by various types of flexible equipment under small changes of flexibility ranges.
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spelling doaj-art-0eefd66f93144f5285d11ef393fdf0db2025-08-20T02:58:50ZzhoState Grid Energy Research InstituteZhongguo dianli1004-96492024-01-01571303910.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202310002zgdl-57-01-zhuruiEvaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic EquivalenceRui ZHU0Yiding OU1Xiaotian LI2Xingyu LEI3Yuqing ZHOU4Poyang ZHANG5Rui OU6State Grid Chongqing Electric Power Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400015, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology(Chongqing University), Chongqing 400044, ChinaState Grid Chongqing Electric Power Research Institute, Chongqing 401120, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology(Chongqing University), Chongqing 400044, ChinaState Grid Chongqing Electric Power Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400015, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology(Chongqing University), Chongqing 400044, ChinaState Grid Chongqing Electric Power Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400015, ChinaIn order to fully utilize the clean, flexible and economic characteristics of distributed energy(DE), it is needed to efficiently manage its comprehensive and flexible regulation characteristics. However, directly embedding the virtual power plant(VPP) model into the main grid scheduling is prone to the risk of privacy leakage and great computational burden of different energy entities. Therefore, it is necessary to aggregate the multi-category flexibility resources of VPP to calculate their equivalent external characteristics. To this end, this article proposes a VPP flexibility characterization method based on vertex search, which aggregates various flexibility within the VPP into the output power of the VPP nodes, whose mathematical essence is the projection of a high-dimensional flexibility space to a low-dimensional space. Then, by introducing the extrapolation-based vertex search method, we achieve the approximation of the projection by maximizing the Euclidean distance between hyperplanes. Finally, based on the flexibility equivalence method, we propose an evaluation method for VPP flexibility resources to explain the main grid operation cost and optimal solution changes before and after the VPP access from a geometric perspective. The case study shows that the proposed flexibility aggregation model can effectively reduce the operating cost of the main grids, and the proposed VPP value assessment method based on external characteristic equivalence can effectively evaluate the value generated by various types of flexible equipment under small changes of flexibility ranges.https://www.electricpower.com.cn/CN/10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202310002distributed energyvirtual power plantvertex searchflexibility value assessment
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Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence
Zhongguo dianli
distributed energy
virtual power plant
vertex search
flexibility value assessment
title Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence
title_full Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence
title_fullStr Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence
title_short Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence
title_sort evaluation of virtual power plant flexibility resources based on external characteristic equivalence
topic distributed energy
virtual power plant
vertex search
flexibility value assessment
url https://www.electricpower.com.cn/CN/10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202310002
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