Day-Ahead Scheduling of Power System With Short-Circuit Current Constraints Considering Transmission Switching and Wind Generation

The expansion of the power network and integration of wind farms pose challenges in the short-circuit current (SCC) problem. Transmission switching performs better in both flexibility and effectiveness compared with other SCC restriction measures, while the power grid security would be threatened as the number of switched-off-lines increases. This paper proposes a day-ahead scheduling model considering commitment of units and N-1 criterion, to avoid the excessive SCC problem caused by wind farms integration. Specially, the SCC calculation model of the grid-connected wind farms is put forward to aggregate wind farms and calculate SCC. A novel SCC formulation considering transmission switching, commitment of units as well as wind farms integration is deduced and converted to SCC constraints. The SCC constrained mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) based day-ahead scheduling model is proposed, which minimizes system operation cost and transmission switching cost. In addition, the N-1 security requirement is considered in the proposed day-ahead scheduling model to ensure system security by avoiding switching off too many lines. Numerical results of a modified IEEE 30-bus system with two wind farms illustrate effectiveness of the proposed model.