Distributed Scheduling of Multiple Ice-Storage Air Conditioning Systems

With the large-scale integration of wind power and photovoltaic, the traditional dispatching mode has a quota limitation in the way of wind and photovoltaic abandoning. Flexible load is an important dispatchable resource to supplement and improve the utilization efficiency of renewable energy. Ice storage is a typical flexible load, may have the most regulatory potential in the future. This paper considers a load aggregator contains multiple ice storage air conditioners. The aim of this paper is to allocate the regulation tasks to those ice storage air conditioners in an optimal way under distributed manner. A consensus based distributed allocation method is proposed to solve this problem. Simulation example is included to show the effective of the proposed method.