Abstract
In power system studies the unit commitment problem (UC) is solved to support market decisions and assess system adequacy. Simplifications are made to solve the UC faster, but they are made without considering the consequences on solution quality. In this study we thoroughly investigated the impacts of simplifications on solution quality and computation time on a benchmark set consisting of almost all the available instances in the literature. We found that omitting the minimum up- and downtime and simplifying the startup cost resulted in a significant quality loss without reducing the computation time. Omitting reserve requirements, ramping limits and transmission limits reduced the computation time, but degraded the solution significantly. However, the linear relaxation resulted in less quality loss with a significant speed-up and resulted in no difference when unserved energy was minimized. Finally, we found that the average and maximum capacity factor difference is large for all model variants.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-63 |
| Number of pages | 63 |
| Journal | Energy Systems |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Funding Information: This work is part of the research programme “Energie: Systeem Integratie en Big Data” with project number 647.003.005, which is financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).Keywords
- Model relaxations
- Power system modeling
- Unit commitment problem