Energy and Reserve Dispatch with Renewable Generation Using Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization

With the increasing penetration of renewable generation such as wind power in modern power systems, there are many new challenges arising in power system operation with respect to reliability and economy. In this work, we study a two-stage data-driven distributionally robust (DR) energy and reserve dispatch problem with uncertain wind power. Different from the general moment-based ambiguity set, we design a new distance-based ambiguity set to describe the uncertain probability distribution of wind power, which can be constructed in a data-driven manner from historical data. Base on this new ambiguity set, the second-stage worst-case expectation of the problem is reformulated to a combination of conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) and an expected cost with respect to a reference distribution. Thus, the proposed two-stage DR model becomes a two-stage stochastic optimization problem which can be readily solved. Case studies are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method based on the IEEE 6-bus test system and modified IEEE 118-bus test system. Simulation results show the value of data in controlling the conservatism of the problem, and the DR problem converges to the stochastic problem with fixed distribution as the data size goes to infinity.