A Hierarchical Optimization Strategy of the Energy Router-Based Energy Internet

Due to the capacity limitation and the renewable energy's uncontrollability, multiple energy hubs (EHs) are connected by energy routers (ERs) to form a network structure and further build the future energy internet. With concave objective functions and/or nonlinear operation constraints, the centralized optimal dispatch of interconnected EHs is difficult to solve. In order to reduce the complexity of centralized optimal dispatch on large-scale systems and protect the information privacy of different EHs, a hierarchical optimization strategy is put forward for the ER-based energy internet. Specifically, the lower level is the optimal dispatch within EHs, where the dispatch model of EH is further optimized by considering variable dispatch factors, and the information privacy of different EHs is preserved. The upper level is the energy routing control between EHs, where the end-to-end power transmission according to contract path is realized through the controllability of ERs and energy routing protocols. Finally, the effectiveness of the hierarchical optimization strategy and model are verified by simulations.