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Random Fuzzy Optimization Model for Short-Term Hydropower Scheduling Considering Uncertainty of Power Load

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Liu Yuan 1 & Jianzhong Zhou 1 & Zijun Mai 1 & Yuanzheng Li 1

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Received: 21 November 2016 / Accepted: 3 April 2017 # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017

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Abstract This paper proposes a random fuzzy optimization (RFO) model for short-term hydropower scheduling, in order to avoid frequent unit switches owing to uncertainty of the power load. The cascade hydropower stations of Qing River in China are firstly introduced for research, and the power load error of the cascade is described. Defined as a random fuzzy variable, the error is analyzed and its distribution is derived to signify the uncertainty. Then random fuzzy programming is integrated into short-term hydropower scheduling to develop the RFO model, with more attention payed to unit spare capacity, while satisfying the demand of power grids. Meanwhile, an applicable solution searching strategy is proposed to solve the model. Simulation results of random fuzzy optimization of the cascade prove that the strategy is practical and the developed model is effective to avoid frequent unit switches. The method also can provide available references for other cascade dispatching center and hydropower stations with the same plight.

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Keywords Random fuzzy optimization . Short-term hydropower scheduling . Daily power load error . Cascade hydropower stations

1 Introduction

Currently, hydropower is the largest renewable and clean energy which provides 20% of the world’s electricity. It’s noted that China is the richest country in hydraulic resources (Chang et al. 2010), consisting of 3886 rivers whose individual potential hydropower is over 10,000 kW. Therefore, in recent decades, it has been seen in the rapid development of

* Jianzhong Zhou [email protected]

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Chinese hydropower projects, such as Three Gorges, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba and Jinping. In this way thirteen hydropower bases have gradually formed and the total installed capacity is planned to be 275.76 million kW. As one of the most fundamental issues of hydropower optimization, short-term hydropower scheduling (STHS) has come into notice (Lu et al. 2015b; Schulze and McKinnon 2016; Schwanenberg et al. 2015; Sreekanth et al. 2012). Nilsson and Sjelvgren (1997) have studied start-up costs of hydro unit and presented how these costs affect short-term scheduling strategies of Swedish power producers, which makes us pay close attention to start-up costs and strategies. Bortoni et al. (2007) have attached more importance to energy conversion efficiency of units in hydro power plants and presented a post-optimization philosophy aiming at the optimization of load distribution between units of each power plant. Cristian Finardi and Reolon Scuzziato (2013) have proposed a novel model where hydraulic efficiency and mechanical losses in the turbine, and the mechanical and electrical losses in the turbine-generator are considered for the hydro unit commitment and loading problem. It has proved to be a useful support tool for day-ahead operation. Shen et al. (2016) have developed an effective and efficient method for coordinating large-scale UHVDC (ultra-high-voltage direct current) hydropower with conventional hydro energies and for fully responding to different peak loads among provinces, which set an example for shaving peak loads from subordinate provincial power grids in China. Moreover, many mathematical programming and heuristic-based approaches have been studied for addressing STHS and obtaining the optimal scheduling solution (Belsnes et al. 2016; Cohen and Yoshimura 1983; Kadowaki et al. 2009). However, with the formation of main UHVDC framework for hydropower transmission (Lu et al. 2015a; Shen et al. 2016), the expansion of volatile renewable energy supplies (Liang et al. 2016) and uncertain demand response (Siano 2014), the uncertainty of power load characteristics should be paid more attention. Under this circumstance, those determined models (Cristian Finardi and Reolon Scuzziato 2013; Lu et al. 2015b; Shen et al. 2016) are not suitable for solving the complex hydropower systems. Therefore, it’s great value to formulate daily generation schedules of hydropower stations following uncertain power load to guarantee both safety and stability of power systems and economy of stations (Lu et al. 2015b). Uncertainty of power load can be manifested in error between planned and actual realtime value. Since influencing factors on power load are various, including season, weather, temperature, and other unstable power supply in power system, most of that are beyond quantification, then it’s difficult to predict load error. What’s more, the characteristics of such error in different areas and periods aren’t the same, which makes it more difficult to determine short-term hydro generation schedules. Lou and Dong (2015) have proposed a novel random fuzzy neural networks for tackling uncertainties of load forecasting, in which uncertainties are modeled by random fuzzy variables. Umayal and Kamaraj (2005) have noticed the mismatch in power load and modeled them by minimizing of the squared error of the unsatisfied power demand. Yuan et al. (2016) have introduced scenario tree for dealing with uncertainty of inflow based on Monto Carlo, but it’s time consuming. People have recognized the uncertainties in short-term scheduling but few papers that deal with daily generation schedules of hydropower stations either not consider uncertain power load or do not model power load error in detail. Thus, this paper aims to develop a practical model for short-term daily optimization scheduling of cascade hydropower stations considering uncertainty in power load error. Random fuzzy programming (Liu et al. 2003; Liu and Liu 2003) is a powerful tool conducting uncertainty, and we attempt to introduce the random fuzzy programming into the problem of STHS and

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develop a random fuzzy optimization model. Then a practical solution searching strategy is proposed to solve the model. The rest of this paper is organized as follows: in Section 2, we present the cascade hydropower stations on Qing River and its power load error; the model is depicted in Section 3, including analyzing the random fuzzy power load error distribution, the random fuzzy optimization model and its solution searching strategy; and in Section 4, test results and discussion of the proposed random fuzzy optimization model of STHS are provided with a case study of Qing cascade. Finally, in the last section, we present the main conclusions.

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2 Cascade Hydropower Stations on Qing River

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Qing River is the first grade branch of Yangtze River in China, originating from Lichuan city and meeting the Yangtze River at Yidu city. Shuibuya (SBY), Geheyan (GHY) and Gaobazhou (GBZ) are the mainly constructed cascade stations on Qing River for both power generation and easing the burden of flood control on Yangtze River. Shuibuya is the upstream and leading station of the cascade, with a total capacity of 45.8*108 m3 and an installed capacity of 1840*106 watts. Geheyan is a downstream station, with an installed capacity of 1200*106 watts, while Gaobazhou is a riverrun power station, as a regulating station for GHY. The basic parameters of the cascade (Qing cascade) are shown in Table 1 and the location can be seen in (Yuan and Zhou 2017). The cascade is dispatched by the Central China Grid (CCG). Covering Chongqing city, Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi and Sichuan provinces, CCG serves a population of about 380 million, accounting for 30% of the total population, and has the highest number of people among all the regional power grids in China. It’s noted that the improvement of people’s living standards drives up demand for heating/refrigerating and electricity, which leads to the uncertainty of the power load. Moreover, it’s difficult to predict the power load of CCG as it has been connected to the East China Grid and North China Grid. Consequently, power load of CCG presents a property with high volatility. Water turbines are well known as quick-start generators, which can be committed on/off very quickly. Thus, they’re often used as remedies to meet the unexpected load error in real-time, and they have to adjust their scheduling plans to deal with something that aren’t expected to happen, such as unpredictable discarded water, unit startup and shutdown, running with a lower efficiency, and so on. Undertaking 10% of the peak-load regulating task of CCG, the Qing cascade plays the most key role in peak regulation and frequency modulation. Especially, when load error happens, Shuibuya always will be in action using the most installed capacity. On the other hand, a unit with a higher nominal output may have a higher start-up cost. Therefore, we’d better minimize the times of unit switches for Shuibuya as possible as we can in daily or short-term hydropower scheduling. Table 1 Part parameters of Shuibuya-Geheyan-Gaobazhou cascade Stations

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Load error et is defined as the bias between plannd and actual load, that is, Preal;t ¼ Pplan;t þ et

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where Preal , t, Pplan , t and et are real-time actual load, planed load and load error at time t, respectively. A typical day in Auguest (summer in China) is taken as a case study, and the several sequential days’ load error of the Qing cascade is shown as Fig. 1. It’s obviously seen that the load error isn’t zero nearly all the time, and in some periods the error reaches 100*104kW, accounted for 54% of the installed capacity of SBY. A site investigation of the dispatching center of the Qing cascade has disclosed that the real-time adjustment sometimes is up to 100 times a day, which leads to frequent unit switches and crossing hydraulic vibration areas. It’s a very serious problem to be addressed for hydropower operation. Therefore, it’s imperative to develop methods and measures to cope with load uncertainty and help cut their losses in return.

3 Model Description

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The daily distribution of load error is the first key problem to figure out before the random fuzzy optimization model is established. Then the solution searching strategy is proposed to solve the model for short-term hydropower scheduling considering uncertainty of power load.

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3.1 Daily Distribution of Load Error

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According to the time continuity of power load and actual power output of stations, recent data has much reference value. Thus the significance test on the average daily load error in a month (July as an example) is done by the Mann-Kendall method(M-K)(Kendall 1948). According to M-K, If

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the test data is judged to have good consistency, where α represents the significance level; UF is a statistics value of M-K. When α = 0.01, Uα/2 = 2.58. When α = 0.05, Uα/2 = 1.96. The M-K test result for the Qing cascade (Fig. 2) reveals that the daily errors have good consistency. Therefore, the data in a month can be used to derive the daily distribution of load error of the following day. To figure out the daily distribution of load error, Random fuzzy variable (Zadeh 1965), which is a powerful tool for dealing with uncertainty existing in real world, is introduced to describe the distribution. Although stochastic methods are used in modeling uncertainties, there are some kinds of uncertainties more than having random or stochastic nature. The error of power load is a good example of such a type of uncertainty that is not only related to randomness, but also fuzziness (Lou and Dong 2015). Such uncertainty can be dealt with by random fuzzy sets in which a fuzzy number represents an interval rather than a single valued point (Liu 2012; Liu et al. 2003; Mousavi et al. 2004). It can be seen from Fig. 1 that the error has serveral peaks and valleys. Then et can be statistically expressed as the following piecewise function. 8 Pvalley1 þ ξv1 t∈T valley1 > >

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sequence{ei'} (i = 1, 2, ⋯ , I) is generated, where ei' = ei − Ppeak1. Step 2: Draw the frequency distribution histogram of ei', and compare the histogram with known distributions, like a uniform, normal or binomial distribution. The frequency distribution histogram in Fig. 3 suggests that ei' approximately obeys a normal distribution. Then the maximum likelihood estimation can be applied to determine the parameters of a normal distribution, that are mean μ1 and variance σ1.

Fig. 2 M-K result of the average daily load error in July

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Step 3: Determine the fuzzy membership grade of μ1 and σ1 by experiments. Taking μ1 as an example, Table 4 in Appendix is the experiment table to fill in. Then let *

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By experiments and statistical analyses, these variables have approximately uniform and normal distribution, respectively. A fuzzy variable does express fuzziness of parameters and thus these random fuzzy variables can be expressed as: 8 ξv1 ∼U ða; bÞ > > < ξ ∼N μ ; σ2  p1  1 1 ð7Þ ξv2 ∼N μ2 ; σ22 > >   : ξp2 ∼N μ3 ; σ23

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The conventional deterministic optimization model of STHS for cascade stations is to dispatch power load to stations and units with an objective of minimizing the cascaded total energy consumption while satisfying power load demands and some prevailing constraints during the given time. The objective function is formulated as follows: E s ¼ min ∑ ∑ K i ⋅H it ⋅Qit ⋅Δt t¼1 i¼1

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where Es denotes the minimum of energy consumption; T and I denote the number of periods and hydropower stations, respectively; Ki denotes the comprehensive efficiency coefficient of i station; Qit and Hit denote the outflow and effective waterhead of i station in period t, respectively;Δt denotes the interval of time period. Then power balance must be obeyed as formula (14) to satisfy the power grid, and other constraints including water balance, maximum and minimum limits should be considered. Other limits like hydro unit start-up costs, shut-down costs, the spinning reserve requirements and restricted operating zones can be flexibly taken into account for the model.  ∀t Pt ¼ P1;t þ ⋯ þ Pi;t þ ⋯ þ PI;t ð14Þ Pi;t ¼ Pi;1;t þ ⋯ þ Pi; j;t þ ⋯ þ Pi; J i ;t ∀i ∀t

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where Pt denotes the real-time load demand of hydropower system in period t; Pi , t and Pi , j , t denote power output of i station and power output of j unit of i station in period t, respectively; Ji denotes the number of units of i station. Since the daily power load error is uncertain, deterministic models of short-term hydropower scheduling aren’t suitable to solve such a problem, and the conventional deterministic optimization model should be improved to some extent. On the basis of the random fuzzy load error, it is appropriate to introduce random fuzzy programming into hydropower scheduling, which contributes to coping with uncertainty. The view that random fuzzy load error affects solutions of unit commitment has been widely accepted (Bertsimas et al. 2013; Ruiz et al. 2009), for the maximum power load and power demand will determine generation schedules in the coming day. As for the power generation side, hydropower stations must have sufficient adjustable spare capacity to track the load error at any time (Gan and Litvinov 2003). The random fuzzy optimization also can transform an uncertain problem into a certain one to reduce the calculation time. Therefore, we attempt to develop a random fuzzy optimization model (RFO) for cascade hydropower stations paying more attention to unit spare capacity. By using the model, an eligible power generation schedule is expected to obtain and report to the power grid, and an optimal unit schedule is achieved simultaneously for guiding

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operation in practice. The objective of the model is to minimize the cascaded total energy consumption as the same as conventional deterministic optimization model. While the power load constraint formula (14) is improved as the formula (15) and formula (16), which are more related to maximum and minimum output limits of stations. Equality constraint: I

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where Ui , j , t is a binary variable indicating whether j unit of i station is on or off in time period t; Pi , j , t is power output of j unit of i station in time period t; Pplan is planned power load t assigned by the dispatching department of grid in time period t. Inequality constraint:

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3.3 Solution Searching Strategy

Short-term optimization of hydropower stations aims at finding out optimal daily schedules for stations and units with a fifteen minutes’ or one hour’s time interval. The above optimization problem is divided into iterative hierarchical sub-problems, and a framework that integrates actual requirements from power grid, stations and units is developed to find a comprehensive solution for the overarching problem, showing in Fig. 5. The detailed solution searching strategy includes four steps. Step 1: Analyze load error distribution in the last few days as description in 3.1 Section and simulate groups of load error data. Based on random fuzzy programming, power constraints for hydropower stations are reinforced as formula (15) and (17).

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Step 2: Discretize and dispatch the given planned power load of the cascade to every single stations at every time period considering power grid constraints, including transmission capability, line maintenance and spinning reserve. It’s a repeatedly iterative step until the optimization objective is satisfied within accuracy requirement. Step 3: Optimize unit commitment of a single station, taking the minimized water consumption as the objective by taking an advantage of characteristic curves of the turbines. Meanwhile, unit priority and maintenance can be set and controlled

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voluntarily. In particular, output limits of stations that are related to load error work well at this step. Step 4: Water discharge, output and water level at time t will be obtained by the random fuzzy optimization model. When T time intervals are cycled, the total hydroenergy consumption of cascade stations is calculated and saved. Repeat step 2 ~ 4 until a termination condition is satisfied.

4 Results and Discussion

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Whether a daily generation schedule is good enough depends on indicators we care most. When a daily generation schedule is figured out, all the indicators such as power generation, generation benefit, water/hydroenergy consumption, times of unit switches and running time in restricted operating zones should be come out to help dispatchers make decisions. However, prior to that, we’d better make it clear which indicators we care about so as to reduce the computational work on indifferent indicators. If an indicator has no or little change among all schedules, it will be of no value for selecting a satisfactory schedule. In other words, we may care indicators that are greatly affected. Therefore, a simulation experiment is carried out to find out which indicator the uncertain power load error affects most on daily generation schedules. Firstly, operators have suggested three indicators that they care, that are hydroenergy consumption of the cascade, daily power generation and total times of unit switches. Secondly, we take a typical day, May 18, 2015 as an example, and get the planned power load of the cascade. Then, the load error is analyzed and based on the distribution characteristics of load error, 500 groups of real-time actual power load data on May 18, 2015 are simulated by Monto Carlo Method. Finally, 500 groups of data are applied to the conventional deterministic optimization model and the three indicators are figured out. The experiment statistics are shown in Table 2. The historical data on May 18, 2015 are also listed for comparison. It can be seen that the minimum, maximum and average value of hydroenergy consumption are very close to the historical data, and so is the power generation, which means that the load error has little impact on hydroenergy consumption and daily power generation of the cascade. While regarding the times of units’ starts and stops, simulation and historical value differ Table 2 The experiment statistics of the conventional deterministic optimization model Indicators

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greatly. Therefore, the load error affects times of unit switches most for the cascade of Qing River, and we care the indicator most.

4.2 Results of Random Fuzzy Optimization Model

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According to the results from the impact of uncertain load error, more attention should be paid to unit switches. Also the operators hold the same view that load error does bring starts and stops costs in practice. It’s well known that frequent unit switches reduce service life and increase maintenance costs (Nilsson and Sjelvgren 1997). Therefore, take the actual power load on May 18, 2015 as the input of conventional deterministic and RFO optimization model, the results of the unit status are shown in Fig. 6, in which dark and light blue represent unit status of on and off, respectively, and the number represents time periods. The comparative results above show that the major difference lies in unit status of Shuibuya. For Shuibuya, times of unit switches significantly reduces from 11 to 5. Further analysis establishes that some units keep running longer to avoid frequent unit switches so as to cope with the power load error, thus indicating that the proposed RFO model works well. The unit schedules can be used for guiding operation in practice even if actual real-time load is uncertain. Meanwhile, the day-ahead power generation schedule for cascade stations follows the planned power load very well, which is fundamental for power system operations. Then the power generation schedules can be reported to the dispatching department of grid.

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Even if the RFO model provides us a better daily schedule than the conventional deterministic model mainly because of its fewer times of unit switches, we may still wonder if the unit schedule works well when the actual real-time power load is quite different from the planned values. To further verify the validity of RFO model, the generated 500 groups of load error data in 4.1 Section are applied to simulate the actual uncertain load. Assuming that stations run

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as the unit schedules from two models, respectively. Thereafter, we analyze the indicators of cascade stations and the comparison results are shown in Table 3 and Fig. 7. Times of unit switches shown in Table 3 makes clear that Model 2 can avoid frequent unit switches, and that Shuibuya plays an important role in bearing load basis because of its capacity. It’s speculated that if Shuibuya reaches its maximum power output, Geheyan will take over the job. In addition, Fig. 7 indicates that Model 2 doesn’t suffer a disadvantage in hydroenergy consumption in statistical terms. Therefore, it proves that Model 2 works much better than Model 1 in reducing unit switches. In fact, this paper aims at short-term scheduling for only 96 time periods a day. While more time periods in actual operation and the impact of reducing unit switches will be more dramatic.

5 Conclusions

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In this paper, we have studied one of the most intriguing questions related to short-term hydropower scheduling considering uncertainty of power load, including randomness and fuzziness. We define this kind of uncertainty as the error between planned and actual real-time power load for cascade stations. The error has a negative effect on short-term operation of stations, especially on unit switches, which is a challenging and pressing problem for shortterm hydropower scheduling. Based on random fuzzy programming, the load error is described as a random fuzzy variable and its distribution is analyzed. Meanwhile, unit spare capacity is considered to deal with load error and a random fuzzy optimization model for short-term hydropower scheduling is established. Finally, a practical solution searching strategy is proposed to solve the optimization model.

Fig. 7 Hydroenergy consumption of the cascade by 500 times simulation

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As main regulating stations, the Qing cascade plays a crucial role in peak regulation and frequency modulation, which is taken as an example. The results reveal that load error affects times of unit switches most and the random fuzzy optimization model help reduce times of unit switches significantly, compared with the conventional deterministic model. Meanwhile, the validity of unit schedules of random fuzzy optimization model is verified by using simulated groups of load error data. Therefore, the proposed random fuzzy optimization model is a simple practical solution to avoid frequent unit switches in short-term hydropower scheduling. In addition, it’s expected to be a promising alternative for other dispatching centers and hydropower stations when dealing with uncertain load error.

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Acknowledgements This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC0402205), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51579107), and the Key Program of the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91547208), and special thanks are given to the anonymous reviewers and editors for their constructive comments.

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