Electric Power ›› 2022, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (8): 23-30.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202108097

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System Flexibility-Oriented Optimized Unit Operation in Wind Farms

LI Qian1, GOU Luyang1, LI Fan2, ZHANG Anan1, ZHENG Yadi1, ZHOU Xipeng1   

  1. 1. School of Electrical Engineering and Information, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China;
    2. State Grid Leshan Shawan Power Supply Company, Leshan 614900, China
  • Received:2021-08-15 Revised:2022-04-02 Online:2022-08-28 Published:2022-08-18
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by Central Government Funds for Guiding Local Scientific and Technological Development of China (No.2021ZYD0042), Sichuan Science and Technology Plan Funded Project (No.2021YFSY0051).

Abstract: Among all existing wind power optimization operation models, only few of them apply operation strategies involving the optimization of internal units in wind farms. Moreover, most wind power units participate in the system dispatching as "passive" role, overlooking the potential capability of wind power itself to provide flexibility. With regards to this issue, this paper proposes a new method for the optimal operation of units in wind farms that can provide system flexibility. First, the authors analyze the flexible resources and flexibility requirements of wind farms from both the supply side and the load side, explore the feasibility of wind power as a flexible resource, and then establish the system flexibility model respectively. Secondly, based on their operating characteristics, the wind turbines, are classified using FCM classification algorithm in terms of their flexibilities such that the equivalent virtual power dispatch model of the units are established. Then an optimal operation model of wind farm units is constructed to provide system flexibility by which the optimal generation output plan of the wind farm is obtained while minimizing the damage to the wind farm units. Finally, taking a wind farm as an example, the correctness and effectiveness of the method is verified through the revised IEEE standard testing system.

Key words: new energy grid connection, wind power flexibility, wind turbines classification, optimized operation, virtual power