A New Solution for Multi-Region Transmission Congestion Management

The rapid growth of inter-regional trading among electricity markets requires the development of new market-oriented mechanisms for the multi-regional congestion management of such trading. In the deregulated power system, the challenge of congestion management for the transmission system operator is to create a set of rules that ensure sufficient control over producers and consumers to maintain an acceptable level of power system security and reliability in both the short term and the long time term while maximizing market efficiency. A decentralized approach is suggested to solve the problem using multi-agent technology in this paper. Each agent has its own knowledge base that comprises all the data and know-how to carry out its task and to handle interaction with its related Agents and dispatcher. Through autonomous and cooperative actions of the agents, the team of agents can perform congestion decision-making scheme online