A new approach to generation scheduling in interconnected power systems using predictor-corrector proximal multiplier method

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate a new generation scheduling algorithm in the interconnected power systems. Typically, the generation scheduling problem as a mixed integer non-linear programming can be effectively solved by the generalized Benders decomposition technique which decouples an original problem into the master problem and subproblems to tremendously allow fast and accurate solutions of large-scale problems. In order to formulate efficient inter-temporal optimal power flow (OPF) subproblems, we will explore a regional decomposition framework based on predictor-corrector proximal multiplier method. In fact, this scheme can find the most economic generation schedules under the power transactions for a multi-utility system without the exchange of each utility's own private information and major disruption to existing economic dispatch or OPF adopted by individual utilities.