Achieving Emission-Reduction Goals: Multi-Period Power-System Expansion under Short-Term Operational Uncertainty

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume 39, issue 1, pp. 119-131

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Stochastic adaptive robust optimization is capable of handling short-term uncertainties in demand and variable renewable-energy sources that affect investment in generation and transmission capacity. We build on this setting by considering a multi-year investment horizon for finding the optimal plan for generation and transmission capacity expansion while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, we incorporate multiple hours in power-system operations to capture hydropower operations and flexibility requirements for utilizing variable renewable-energy sources such as wind and solar power. To improve the computational performance of existing exact methods for this problem, we employ Benders decomposition and solve a mixed-integer quadratic programming problem to avoid computationally expensive big-M linearizations. The results for a realistic case study for the Nordic and Baltic region indicate which investments in transmission, wind power, and flexible generation capacity are required for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Through out-of-sample experiments, we show that the stochastic adaptive robust model leads to lower expected costs than a stochastic programming model under increasingly stringent environmental considerations.

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Rintamäki, T, Oliveira, F, Siddiqui, A & Salo, A 2024, 'Achieving Emission-Reduction Goals: Multi-Period Power-System Expansion under Short-Term Operational Uncertainty', IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 119-131. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2023.3244668