Dynamic Electric Dispatch for Wind Power Plants: A New Automatic Controller System Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Sustainability

Elizabeth F. Wanner¹  Silvia Jiménez-Fernández²  Carolina G. Marcelino²  Sancho Salcedo-Sanz²  João V. C. Avancini³  Carla A. D. M. Delgado³ 

[1] Department of Computation, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Belo Horizonte 30421-169, Brazil;Department of Signal Processing and Communications, Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), Alcalá de Henares, 28805 Madrid, Spain;Institute of Computing, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro 21941-972, Brazil;

关键词: offshore wind power;    optimization;    energy efficiency;    energy resources;    clean energies;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su132111924

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we use an evolutionary swarm intelligence approach to build an automatic electric dispatch controller for an offshore wind power plant (WPP). The optimal power flow (OPF) problem for this WPP is solved by the Canonical Differential Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (C-DEEPSO). In this paper, C-DEEPSO works as a control system for reactive sources in energy production. The control operation takes place in a daily energy dispatch, scheduled into 15 min intervals and resulting in 96 operating test scenarios. As the nature of the optimization problem is dynamic, a fine-tuning of the initialization parameters of the optimization algorithm is performed at each dispatch interval. Therefore, a version of the C-DEEPSO algorithm has been built to automatically learn the best set of initialization parameters for each scenario. For this, we have coupled C-DEEPSO with the irace tool (an extension of the iterated F-race (I/F-Race)) by using inferential statistic techniques. The experiments carried out showed that the methodology employed here is robust and able to tackle this OPF-like modeling. Moreover, the methodology works as an automatic control system for a dynamic schedule operation.

【 授权许可】

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