Planning with multiple transmission and storage investment options under uncertainty: a nested decomposition approach
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Falugi, P
Konstantelos, I
Strbac, G
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Achieving the ambitious climate change mitigation objectives set by governments worldwide is bound to lead to unprecedented amounts of network investment to accommodate low-carbon sources of energy. Beyond investing in conventional transmission lines, new technologies such as energy storage can improve operational flexibility and assist with the cost-effective integration of renewables. Given the long lifetime of these network assets and their substantial capital cost, it is imperative to decide on their deployment on a long-term cost-benefit basis. However, such an analysis can result in large-scale Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems which contain many thousands of continuous and binary variables. Complexity is severely exacerbated by the need to accommodate multiple candidate assets and consider a wide range of exogenous system development scenarios that may occur. In this manuscript we propose a novel, efficient and highly-generalizable framework for solving large-scale planning problems under uncertainty by using a temporal decomposition scheme based on the principles of Nested Benders. The challenges that arise due to the presence of non-sequential investment state equations and sub-problem non-convexity are highlighted and tackled. The substantial computational gains of the proposed method are demonstrated via a case study on the IEEE 118 bus test system that involve planning of multiple transmission and storage assets under long-term uncertainty.
Date Issued
2018-07-01
Date Acceptance
2017-11-11
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2018, 33 (4), pp.3559-3572
ISSN
0885-8950
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
3559
End Page
3572
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Volume
33
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/E020798/1
EP/K002252/1
EEZ1419554
EP/N030028/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
Energy storage
mixed integer-linear programming
nested Benders decomposition
stochastic programming
transmission planning
STOCHASTIC LINEAR-PROGRAMS
L-SHAPED METHOD
CAPACITY EXPANSION
INTEGER PROGRAMS
GENERATION
ALGORITHM
VALUATION
SYSTEMS
MARKET
0906 Electrical And Electronic Engineering
Energy
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-11-16