This paper proposes a meta-heuristic optimization based two-stage residential load pattern clustering (LPC) approach to address two main issues that exist in the most current LPC methods: 1) unreasonable typical load ...
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(纸本)9781538645390
This paper proposes a meta-heuristic optimization based two-stage residential load pattern clustering (LPC) approach to address two main issues that exist in the most current LPC methods: 1) unreasonable typical loadpattern (TLP) extraction, 2) a good clustering should achieve reasonable balance between the intra-cluster compactness and inter-cluster separation of the formed clusters. However, most of the current clustering algorithms usually only take one of the aspects into consideration. In the first stage, an adaptive DBSCAN is proposed to automatically detect the uncommon load curves and obtain the TLP of each individual customer. In the second stage, LPC is formulated as an optimization problem in which clustering validity index (CVI) considering both compactness and separation is used as the objective function. Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is adopted to solve this optimization problem. Four different CVIs are investigated to find the most appropriate one for LPC. A comparative case study using the real load data from 208 households from the U.K. verified the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
More in-depth understanding about the load pattern clustering (LPC) can enhance the knowledge on end-users' electricity consumption behavior characteristics to improve the design of demand-side response schemes an...
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(纸本)9781538624531
More in-depth understanding about the load pattern clustering (LPC) can enhance the knowledge on end-users' electricity consumption behavior characteristics to improve the design of demand-side response schemes and service level for utility companies. However, traditional clustering methods such as K-means only take the compactness of the formed clusters into account without considering the separation, which makes the clustering results unreasonable. Moreover, K-means is sensitive to the initial centroids and easy to trap into local optimum. To address these issues, a meta -heuristic optimization based residential LPC approach is proposed in this paper. First, the density based spatial clustering of applications with noises (DBSCAN) is adopted to remove the outlier load profiles and obtain typical loadpatterns. Second, LPC is formulated as an optimization problem which considers both compactness and separation of the formed clusters. Then an improved Gravitational Search Algorithm (IGSA) is proposed to solve it. To improve the global search capabilities of the standard GSA, memory management strategies from PSO and multi-mutation/crossover/selection mechanisms from difference evolution are modified and adopted in this research. Finally, a case study is carried out to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method, in which IGSA is compared with three other well-known clustering methods including K-means, PSO and GSA. The simulation results indicate that IGSA shows better performance in terms of the clustering quality.
Demand response (DR) is a key technology enabling reliable and flexible power system operation more economically and environment-friendly than conventional manners from supply side. Customer baseline load (CBL) estima...
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Demand response (DR) is a key technology enabling reliable and flexible power system operation more economically and environment-friendly than conventional manners from supply side. Customer baseline load (CBL) estimation is an important issue in the implementation of DR programs for assessing the performance of DR programs and designing economic compensation mechanisms. The accurate estimation of CBL is critical to the success of DR programs because it involves the interests of multi-stakeholders including utilities and customers. Motivated by the inaccuracy of existing CBL methods, this paper proposes a residential CBL estimation approach based on loadpattern (LP) clustering to improve the accuracy of CBL estimation. First, an adaptive density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is proposed to extract typical loadpatterns (TLPs) of each individual customer in order to avoid the adverse effects from aggregating many dissimilar LPs together as the real TLP. Second, K-means clustering is utilized to segment residential customers into several different clusters based on the similarity of LPs. Finally, CBLs for DR participants are estimated based on the actual load of nonparticipants at the same cluster during DR event periods. The proposed methods are compared with some traditional methods on a smart metering dataset from Ireland. The results show that the proposed methods have a better performance on accuracy than averaging and regression methods. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Demand response (DR) is a key technology enabling reliable and flexible power system operation more economically and environment-friendly than conventional manners from supply side. Customer baseline load (CBL) estima...
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Demand response (DR) is a key technology enabling reliable and flexible power system operation more economically and environment-friendly than conventional manners from supply side. Customer baseline load (CBL) estimation is an important issue in the implementation of DR programs for assessing the performance of DR programs and designing economic compensation mechanisms. The accurate estimation of CBL is critical to the success of DR programs because it involves the interests of multi-stakeholders including utilities and customers. Motivated by the inaccuracy of existing CBL methods, this paper proposes a residential CBL estimation approach based on loadpattern (LP) clustering to improve the accuracy of CBL estimation. First, an adaptive density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is proposed to extract typical loadpatterns (TLPs) of each individual customer in order to avoid the adverse effects from aggregating many dissimilar LPs together as the real TLP. Second, K-means clustering is utilized to segment residential customers into several different clusters based on the similarity of LPs. Finally, CBLs for DR participants are estimated based on the actual load of non-participants at the same cluster during DR event periods. The proposed methods are compared with some traditional methods on a smart metering dataset from Ireland. The results show that the proposed methods have a better performance on accuracy than averaging and regression methods.
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