A Dispatch Method of Combined Heat and Power Plants with Heat Storage Facilities for Wind Power Accommodation

An effective way to solve the problem of wind power curtailment is to install heat storage (HS) facilities in CHP plants. However, the existing power grid does not have the ability to schedule the heat storage facilities. In this paper, we have developed the combined heat and power dispatching system to schedule the power plants as well as the heat storage facilities for the maximum effect of wind power accommodation. The results show that cooperating with the existing scheduling system, the combined heat and power dispatching system has fine-tuned the initial schedules with the adjustment of the heat storage facilities to achieve the desired effect of improving the wind power consumption. Meanwhile, the maximum heat storage amount of the HS facility that limits the capacity of increasing wind power accommodation. What's more, the capacity can be affected when the heat load varies seasonally owing to the external characteristics of the CHP unit.