Electric Power ›› 2021, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (4): 95-106,118.DOI: 10.11930/j.issn.1004-9649.202007033

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Control Freedom Index of Integrated Energy System and Its Impact on Economic Dispatch

ZHENG Tao1,2,3, DAI Zemei1,2,3, YAO Jiahao4, CAO Jing1,2,3, WU Shuomin1,2,3, ZHANG Kaifeng4   

  1. 1. NARI Group Corporation (State Grid Electric Power Research Institute), Nanjing 211106, China;
    2. NARI Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing 211106, China;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Smart Grid Protection and Control, Nanjing 211106, China;
    4. Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of Complex Systems of Engineering, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
  • Received:2020-07-14 Revised:2021-02-26 Published:2021-04-23
  • Supported by:
    This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No.2018YFB0905000) and Science and Technology Project of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Smart Energy Cloud Platform R&D and Application)

Abstract: Integrated energy system (IES) provides users with diversified energy supply services through the coupling conversion of multiple energy flows. Compared with conventional independent energy supply systems, the IES has greater degree of control freedom. In order to measure the degree of control freedom, this paper firstly proposes a convertibility index to characterize the mutual conversion ability of multiple energy flows, and a substitutability index to represents selection opportunities for alternative energy at the user side. In addition, the calculation methods for the convertibility index and the substitutability index are provided. Secondly, considering the influence of control freedom on the optimal operation of the IES, an economic dispatch model of the cooling-heating-power-gas IES is established. Finally, a case simulation is carried out, and the results shows that improving the two control freedom indexes of the convertibility and substitutability of the integrated energy system can reduce the economic dispatch cost of the system.

Key words: degree of control freedom, economic dispatch, integrated energy system, energy storage, combined cooling,heating and power (CCHP) system