Dynamic electric dispatch for wind power plants: A new automatic controller system using evolutionary algorithms

8Citations
Citations of this article
10Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.

Abstract

In this paper, we use an evolutionary swarm intelligence approach to build an automatic electric dispatch controller for an offshore wind power plant (WPP). The optimal power flow (OPF) problem for this WPP is solved by the Canonical Differential Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (C-DEEPSO). In this paper, C-DEEPSO works as a control system for reactive sources in energy production. The control operation takes place in a daily energy dispatch, scheduled into 15 min intervals and resulting in 96 operating test scenarios. As the nature of the optimization problem is dynamic, a fine-tuning of the initialization parameters of the optimization algorithm is performed at each dispatch interval. Therefore, a version of the C-DEEPSO algorithm has been built to automatically learn the best set of initialization parameters for each scenario. For this, we have coupled C-DEEPSO with the irace tool (an extension of the iterated F-race (I/F-Race)) by using inferential statistic techniques. The experiments carried out showed that the methodology employed here is robust and able to tackle this OPF-like modeling. Moreover, the methodology works as an automatic control system for a dynamic schedule operation.

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Marcelino, C. G., Avancini, J. V. C., Delgado, C. A. D. M., Wanner, E. F., Jiménez-Fernández, S., & Salcedo-Sanz, S. (2021). Dynamic electric dispatch for wind power plants: A new automatic controller system using evolutionary algorithms. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(21). https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111924

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free