A Geometric Approach to Aggregate Flexibility Modeling of Thermostatically Controlled Loads

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作者
Zhao L. [1 ]
Zhang W. [1 ]
Hao H. [2 ]
Kalsi K. [2 ]
机构
[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, OH
[2] Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, 99352, WA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Aggregate flexibility; frequency regulation; Minkowski sum; thermostatically controlled loads; virtual battery model;
D O I
10.1109/TPWRS.2017.2674699
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摘要
Coordinated aggregation of a large population of thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs) presents a great potential to provide various ancillary services to the grid. One of the key challenges of integrating TCLs into system-level operation and control is developing a simple and portable model to accurately capture their aggregate flexibility. In this paper, we propose a geometric approach to model the aggregate flexibility of TCLs. We show that the set of admissible power profiles of an individual TCL is a polytope, and their aggregate flexibility is the Minkowski sum of the individual polytopes. In order to represent their aggregate flexibility in an intuitive way and achieve a tractable approximation, we develop optimization-based algorithms to approximate the polytopes by the homothets of a given convex set. As a special application, this set is chosen as a virtual battery model, and the corresponding optimal approximations are solved efficiently by equivalent linear programming problems. Numerical results show that our algorithms yield significant improvement in characterizing the aggregate flexibility over existing modeling methods. We also conduct case studies to demonstrate the efficacy of our approaches by coordinating TCLs to track a frequency regulation signal from the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection. © 2017 IEEE.
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页码:4721 / 4731
页数:10
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