Optimal Configuration of Energy Storage Capacity in Wind-Storage Joint Frequency Regulation

We propose combining energy storage control with pitch control of wind turbines to give wind farms a primary frequency regulation capability similar to thermal power units. Using chance-constrained programming to handle the relationship between reliability and operating cost, and considering the full life-cycle cost of energy storage, we establish a chance-constrained programming model with the objective of minimizing the wind-storage joint frequency regulation operating cost. This achieves a trade-off between operating cost and reliability of the wind-storage frequency regulation system. We use the ant-lion algorithm to solve the model and obtain the optimal configuration of energy storage power and capacity for the wind farm, and compare the optimization results of the ant-lion algorithm with those of the particle swarm algorithm and the genetic algorithm. A case study is presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model and algorithm.