Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2024, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (5): 1731-1740.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2023.0828

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Curtailed power forecasting based on GRU and operation optimization of electric-hydrogen hybrid energy storage system

Ting HE1,2(), Junqiang QIAO1,2(), Guodong WU3   

  1. 1.Gansu Natural Energy Research Institute
    2.Gansu Key Laboratory of Solar Energy Utilization
    3.State Grid Gansu Electric Power Company, Lanzhou 730046, Gansu, China
  • Received:2023-11-16 Revised:2024-01-07 Online:2024-05-28 Published:2024-05-28
  • Contact: Junqiang QIAO E-mail:heting@gneri.com.cn;qiao@gsas.ac.cn

Abstract:

The high penetration of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar will enhance the randomness and volatility of power output, leading to frequent occurrences of wind/solar curtailment. Hydrogen production from wind/solar curtailment is an effective means to handle the deep consumption of renewable energy. In this study, we propose a gated recurrent unit algorithm based on Adam optimization for predicting wind/solar curtailment using Latin hypercube and synchronous backpropagation reduction algorithms to generate typical wind/light generation uncertainty scenarios. A double-layer objective function is constructed to minimize system construction and operating costs. The first layer determines the capacity configuration of the alkaline electrolysis cell (AWE) and battery energy storage system (BESS), and the second layer ensures the system's optimal operation in the generated scenario. In addition, a penalty term is introduced to maximize the abandoned power use. Considering the wind/solar curtailment data from a certain region in northwest China as an example, different structures of neural network algorithms were used to predict the amount of wind/light curtailment. The accuracy of the proposed algorithm was verified by comparing the root mean square errors of the various algorithms. Finally, an optimization configuration analysis was performed on three energy storage schemes. The results showed that using only the BESS system resulted in negative annual profits and the highest annual investment cost. Using the BESS-AWE hybrid energy storage system increased the annual investment cost by 15.66% compared with using only the AWE system, but the annual profit increased by 255%, and the abandoned power usage rate was 92%, effectively improving the system's economy.

Key words: renewable energy curtailment, gated recurrent unit, electric hydrogen hybrid energy storage, two-stage objective function

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