Review of Congestion Management Methods for Power Systems

Abstract

With the acceleration of China's new power reform, the grid congestion problem has become more and more prominent. It has been a hot spot of power industry that studying on the appropriate grid congestion management method of electricity market in every country or region, for ensuring the safe and economic operation of the power system. In recent years, many great researches have been published on grid congestion management. This paper reviews the literature on grid congestion management through two aspects: transmission network congestion and distribution network congestion. Besides, dynamic congestion, congestion pricing and congestion allocation are described by summarizing various publications. Finally based on the reviews of the existing methods for grid congestion, recommendations for transmission and distribution congestion management methods that are suitable for Chinese electricity are suggested market in the end.