Distributed optimization method for economic dispatch of active distribution networks via momentum with historical information and forecast gradient

In the context of vigorously developing new energy sources, the economic dispatch(ED) of active distribution network (ADN) is essential. Due to the single fault affecting the global and high communication cost in centralized scheduling, we propose a distributed gradient method, namely the fast Nesterov accelerated gradient method(FNAGM), which can solve the economic dispatch problem(EDP) in ADN. The distributed architecture does not need to collect global information and only uses a sparse communication network to complete communication exchanges. It is the distributed architecture that can protect users' private information and reduce communication pressure. By constructing the acceleration matrix based on the upper limit of the second derivative, the convergence speed can be effectively improved while satisfying the equality constraints. Eventually, the FNAGM combined with the historical momentum information and the forecast gradient, which is simulated in the bi-layer model of ADN via MATLAB. The verification results show that the algorithm with the historical momentum information and the forecast gradient can complete the optimal scheduling of controllable distributed generator(DG). What is more, the convergence efficiency performance is greatly improved. (c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).