Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center Resources

Abstract The optimal operation analysis plays an important role in estimating the expected return of investment for power systems. However, this work could be highly challenging under the context of active distribution network, where a variety of renewable energy sources and emerging active loads (s...

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Main Authors: Bo Zeng, Hao Xu, Wenshi Wang, Lei Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-10-01
Series:Energy Science & Engineering
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.944
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author Bo Zeng
Hao Xu
Wenshi Wang
Lei Zhu
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Lei Zhu
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description Abstract The optimal operation analysis plays an important role in estimating the expected return of investment for power systems. However, this work could be highly challenging under the context of active distribution network, where a variety of renewable energy sources and emerging active loads (such as Internet data centers) could be penetrated that introduce a high level of nonlinearity and nonconvexity characteristics into the system modeling. To overcome such challenge, this paper presents a new methodological framework based on the improvements of symbiotic organisms search (SOS) algorithm to address the optimal operation problem of active distribution systems containing renewable energy sources and datacenter resources, aiming to provide a practical tool for system analysis, particularly subject to nonconvexity nature of system components. For this purpose, a generic model for the distribution system including wind power, PV, and datacenter resources is first developed, which not only captures the uncertain nature of system components but also accounts for their spatiotemporal flexibility during operation. On this basis, in order to improve the computation efficiency of the problem, the SOS algorithm is improved by designing the selection strategy of random parameters. By using the penalty function method, the concerned problem is expressed as a nonlinear unconstrained optimization problem. The performance of the proposed model and algorithm is examined through comparative studies. It is shown that the proposed method is able to schedule the renewable energy resources and flexible demand of datacenters coordinately to reduce the operation cost of the system significantly in the case study. In addition, the proposed algorithm demonstrates a higher level of accuracy as well as better convergence efficiency compared to other conventional techniques.
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spelling doaj.art-f74c13806ebc464091b4e0bf4a46dc852022-12-21T19:30:30ZengWileyEnergy Science & Engineering2050-05052021-10-019101719173310.1002/ese3.944Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center ResourcesBo Zeng0Hao Xu1Wenshi Wang2Lei Zhu3State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources North China Electric Power University Beijing ChinaState Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources North China Electric Power University Beijing ChinaState Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources North China Electric Power University Beijing ChinaState Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources North China Electric Power University Beijing ChinaAbstract The optimal operation analysis plays an important role in estimating the expected return of investment for power systems. However, this work could be highly challenging under the context of active distribution network, where a variety of renewable energy sources and emerging active loads (such as Internet data centers) could be penetrated that introduce a high level of nonlinearity and nonconvexity characteristics into the system modeling. To overcome such challenge, this paper presents a new methodological framework based on the improvements of symbiotic organisms search (SOS) algorithm to address the optimal operation problem of active distribution systems containing renewable energy sources and datacenter resources, aiming to provide a practical tool for system analysis, particularly subject to nonconvexity nature of system components. For this purpose, a generic model for the distribution system including wind power, PV, and datacenter resources is first developed, which not only captures the uncertain nature of system components but also accounts for their spatiotemporal flexibility during operation. On this basis, in order to improve the computation efficiency of the problem, the SOS algorithm is improved by designing the selection strategy of random parameters. By using the penalty function method, the concerned problem is expressed as a nonlinear unconstrained optimization problem. The performance of the proposed model and algorithm is examined through comparative studies. It is shown that the proposed method is able to schedule the renewable energy resources and flexible demand of datacenters coordinately to reduce the operation cost of the system significantly in the case study. In addition, the proposed algorithm demonstrates a higher level of accuracy as well as better convergence efficiency compared to other conventional techniques.https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.944Active distribution systemdatacenter resourcesdistributed generationflexibilityoperation
spellingShingle Bo Zeng
Hao Xu
Wenshi Wang
Lei Zhu
Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center Resources
Energy Science & Engineering
Active distribution system
datacenter resources
distributed generation
flexibility
operation
title Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center Resources
title_full Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center Resources
title_fullStr Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center Resources
title_full_unstemmed Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center Resources
title_short Improved Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Active Distribution Systems Incorporating Renewables and Emerging Data‐Center Resources
title_sort improved symbiotic organisms search algorithm for optimal operation of active distribution systems incorporating renewables and emerging data center resources
topic Active distribution system
datacenter resources
distributed generation
flexibility
operation
url https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.944
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