Integrated Intelligent Energy ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (1): 18-27.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2097-0706.2024.01.003

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Research on load regulation strategy of integrated energy systems considering meteorological factors and time-of-use tariffs

ZHANG Li1(), JIN Li2,*(), REN Juguang1, LIU Xiaobing1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Fluid and Power Machinery,Ministry of Education,Xihua University,Chengdu 610039,China
    2. CHN Energy Daduhe Pubugou Hydropower General Plant,Ya'an 625304,China
  • Received:2023-08-30 Revised:2023-11-06 Online:2024-01-25 Published:2023-12-05
  • Supported by:
    National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFB0905200)

Abstract:

Being affected by meteorological factors,the power consumption of an integrated energy system (IES) coupling multiple sources is prone to surge during peak load periods, resulting in intensifying contradictions between power supply and demand. Meanwhile, since an IES need to convert different types of energy and power equipment, such as ice storage air conditioner, with its energy storage unit, the system's energy cost is affected by time-of-use tariffs. Taking the cooling and electricity demands of an IES during the peak period as regulation objectives, a two-stage progressive regulation strategy including self-regulation on cooling load and active control on cooling load is proposed, aiming at expanding the balance scope of the supply and demand from a multi-energy system and reducing the system's energy cost. The regulation period is selected by fuzzy C-means clustering, comprehensively considering the influence of meteorological factors and time-of-use prices. In the first stage, the load regulation model with the optimal temperature and humidity, and the lowest demand on cold energy as objectives is constructed. In the second stage, a cooling output active control strategy with the lowest energy cost and the minimal operating energy consumption as its objectives is proposed. Finally, the method is verified by the simulation of an IES for a campus. The multi-objective models are solved by the ε-constraint method and multi-dimensional preference linear programming. The operation energy consumption and energy cost varying with the comfort before and after the regulation on peak-period power consumption are compared. The calculation results show that the proposed method can reduce the load demand by about 13% and the cost by about 1.9%, while satisfying the comfort of energy users. It can effectively alleviate the contradiction between the supply and demand of multi-energy systems, and enhance the flexibility of system operation.

Key words: integrated energy system, load regulation, multi-objective optimization, comprehensive meteoro-logical factors, time-of-use tariff

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