Effect of modelling choices in the unit commitment problem.

Autor: Wuijts, Rogier Hans, van den Akker, Marjan, van den Broek, Machteld
Zdroj: Energy Systems; Feb2024, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p1-63, 63p
Abstrakt: In power system studies the unit commitment problem (UC) is solved to support market decisions and assess system adequacy. Simplifications are made to solve the UC faster, but they are made without considering the consequences on solution quality. In this study we thoroughly investigated the impacts of simplifications on solution quality and computation time on a benchmark set consisting of almost all the available instances in the literature. We found that omitting the minimum up- and downtime and simplifying the startup cost resulted in a significant quality loss without reducing the computation time. Omitting reserve requirements, ramping limits and transmission limits reduced the computation time, but degraded the solution significantly. However, the linear relaxation resulted in less quality loss with a significant speed-up and resulted in no difference when unserved energy was minimized. Finally, we found that the average and maximum capacity factor difference is large for all model variants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index