Distributed Cooperative Dispatch Method of Distribution Network with District Heat Network and Battery Energy Storage System Considering Flexible Regulation Capability

Flexible resources, including district heat networks (DHN) and battery energy storage systems (BESS), can provide flexible regulation capability for distribution networks (DN), thereby increasing the absorption capacity for renewable energy. In order to improve the operation economy of DN and ensure the information privacy of different operators, a distributed cooperative dispatch method of DN with DHN and BESS considering flexible regulation capability is proposed. First, a distributed cooperative dispatch framework of DN-DHN-BESS is constructed. Then, an optimal dispatch model of DHN under constant flow-variable temperature control strategy is established in order to utilize the heat storage capacity to provide flexible regulation capability for DN. Next, the optimal dispatch models of BESS and DN are established with the objective of minimizing the operation cost, respectively. Finally, a solution method based on the alternating direction multiplier method of distributed cooperative dispatch for DN-DHN-BESS is proposed. Case studies are performed on a system consisting of a 33-node DN and a 44-node DHN, and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method differs from the centralized dispatch method by only 0.52% in the total system cost, and the proposed method reduces the total system cost by 34.5% compared to that of the independent dispatch method.