Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand Side
As an efficient way to integrate multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) and the user side, a microgrid is mainly faced with the problems of small-scale volatility, uncertainty, intermittency and demand-side uncertainty of DERs. The traditional microgrid has a single form and cannot meet the fl...
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| description | As an efficient way to integrate multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) and the user side, a microgrid is mainly faced with the problems of small-scale volatility, uncertainty, intermittency and demand-side uncertainty of DERs. The traditional microgrid has a single form and cannot meet the flexible energy dispatch between the complex demand side and the microgrid. In response to this problem, the overall environment of wind power, thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), energy storage systems (ESSs), price-responsive loads and the main grid is proposed. Secondly, the centralized control of the microgrid operation is convenient for the control of the reactive power and voltage of the distributed power supply and the adjustment of the grid frequency. However, there is a problem in that the flexible loads aggregate and generate peaks during the electricity price valley. The existing research takes into account the power constraints of the microgrid and fails to ensure a sufficient supply of electric energy for a single flexible load. This paper considers the response priority of each unit component of TCLs and ESSs on the basis of the overall environment operation of the microgrid so as to ensure the power supply of the flexible load of the microgrid and save the power input cost to the greatest extent. Finally, the simulation optimization of the environment can be expressed as a Markov decision process (MDP) process. It combines two stages of offline and online operations in the training process. The addition of multiple threads with the lack of historical data learning leads to low learning efficiency. The asynchronous advantage actor–critic (Memory A3C, M-A3C) with the experience replay pool memory library is added to solve the data correlation and nonstatic distribution problems during training. The multithreaded working feature of M-A3C can efficiently learn the resource priority allocation on the demand side of the microgrid and improve the flexible scheduling of the demand side of the microgrid, which greatly reduces the input cost. Comparison of the researched cost optimization results with the results obtained with the proximal policy optimization (PPO) algorithm reveals that the proposed algorithm has better performance in terms of convergence and optimization economics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9f8d9b2ae9b14398891149cb96608dad2023-11-30T22:18:23ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202022-03-01226225610.3390/s22062256Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand SideJinsong Sang0Hongbin Sun1Lei Kou2Changchun Institute of Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Changchun 130012, ChinaChangchun Institute of Technology, School of Electrical Engineering, Changchun 130012, ChinaInstitute of Oceanographic Instrumentation, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Qingdao 266075, ChinaAs an efficient way to integrate multiple distributed energy resources (DERs) and the user side, a microgrid is mainly faced with the problems of small-scale volatility, uncertainty, intermittency and demand-side uncertainty of DERs. The traditional microgrid has a single form and cannot meet the flexible energy dispatch between the complex demand side and the microgrid. In response to this problem, the overall environment of wind power, thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), energy storage systems (ESSs), price-responsive loads and the main grid is proposed. Secondly, the centralized control of the microgrid operation is convenient for the control of the reactive power and voltage of the distributed power supply and the adjustment of the grid frequency. However, there is a problem in that the flexible loads aggregate and generate peaks during the electricity price valley. The existing research takes into account the power constraints of the microgrid and fails to ensure a sufficient supply of electric energy for a single flexible load. This paper considers the response priority of each unit component of TCLs and ESSs on the basis of the overall environment operation of the microgrid so as to ensure the power supply of the flexible load of the microgrid and save the power input cost to the greatest extent. Finally, the simulation optimization of the environment can be expressed as a Markov decision process (MDP) process. It combines two stages of offline and online operations in the training process. The addition of multiple threads with the lack of historical data learning leads to low learning efficiency. The asynchronous advantage actor–critic (Memory A3C, M-A3C) with the experience replay pool memory library is added to solve the data correlation and nonstatic distribution problems during training. The multithreaded working feature of M-A3C can efficiently learn the resource priority allocation on the demand side of the microgrid and improve the flexible scheduling of the demand side of the microgrid, which greatly reduces the input cost. Comparison of the researched cost optimization results with the results obtained with the proximal policy optimization (PPO) algorithm reveals that the proposed algorithm has better performance in terms of convergence and optimization economics.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/6/2256microgridenergy storageflexible loadreinforcement learningdeep learningenergy optimization |
| spellingShingle | Jinsong Sang Hongbin Sun Lei Kou Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand Side Sensors microgrid energy storage flexible load reinforcement learning deep learning energy optimization |
| title | Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand Side |
| title_full | Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand Side |
| title_fullStr | Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand Side |
| title_full_unstemmed | Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand Side |
| title_short | Deep Reinforcement Learning Microgrid Optimization Strategy Considering Priority Flexible Demand Side |
| title_sort | deep reinforcement learning microgrid optimization strategy considering priority flexible demand side |
| topic | microgrid energy storage flexible load reinforcement learning deep learning energy optimization |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/6/2256 |
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