Model Predictive Control Based Power System Operation Planning of Grid Connected High Share Renewable Energy

This paper presents operation scenarios of a power system grid with connected large-capacity renewable resources. The proposed operation technique is based on the Model Predictive Control (MPC). The operation plan works to solve large renewable penetration challenges via optimizing the outputs of the conventional and renewable power plants to overcome generation variability and uncertainty. MPC has the ability to solve the optimization problem in predictive way to deal with both renewable energy and demand forecasting errors. The operation plan of the power system is studied during the four seasons in one year to cover different renewable resources circumstances. The simulation results are used to verify the validity of the proposed technique.