Design and Optimization of Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Microgrid with Energy Storage Station Service

This study aims to symmetrically improve the economy and environmental protection of combined cooling, heating and power microgrid. Hence, the characteristics of configuration ways of energy storage devices in traditional combined cooling, heating and power systems are analyzed, and a scheme for the operator to establish an energy storage station is designed. An improved aquila optimizer for the optimal configuration of the system is proposed to symmetrically enhance the economic and environmental protection performance. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is verified through experiments in three different places. The results show that the economic cost and exhaust emission of the system with energy storage station are reduced to varying degrees compared with the system with energy storage equipment alone and the system without energy storage equipment based on symmetry concept. Especially in Place 1, the scheme with energy storage station in the system can reduce the electric energy purchased from power grid by 43.29% and 61.09%, respectively, compared with other schemes. This study is conducive to promoting the development of clean energy, alleviating the energy crisis, reducing the power supply pressure of power grid, and improving the profits of operators by symmetrically considering the economic and environmental performance of the system.