Optimal weekly usage of cryogenic energy storage in an open retail electricity market

Author

Khani, Hadi ; Zadeh, Mohammad R. Dadash ; Seethapathy, Ravi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, the concept of weekly usage of Cryogenic Energy Storage (CES) to shift the electrical energy from lower prices during off-peak periods to higher prices during peak periods as compared to common daily usage is introduced. Two equally-expensive CESs are optimally sized for daily and weekly usage. An optimal dispatch algorithm is developed by formulating a mixed integer linear program (MILP) problem to determine the CES charging and discharging power set-points in an open retail electricity market based on online and forecasted electricity price. GLPK package is employed to solve the optimization problem. The economic benefits of both CES weekly and daily usages are presented and compared for different price profiles and round-trip efficiencies of the storage. The results reveal significant benefits of weekly usage of the CES as compared to daily usage.

Keywords

cryogenics; energy storage; integer programming; linear programming; load dispatching; load forecasting; power markets; pricing; CES; GLPK package; MILP problem; cryogenic energy storage; electricity price forecasting; mixed integer linear programming problem; open retail electricity market; optimal dispatch algorithm; optimization problem; round-trip efficiency; Electricity; Electricity supply industry; Energy storage; Optimization; Partial discharges; Storage tanks; System-on-chip; Cryogenic energy storage; Energy shift; Optimal dispatch; Weekly and daily usages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672626

Filename

6672626