A Response-Function-Based Coordination Method for Transmission-Distribution-Coupled AC OPF
This method addresses the coordination challenge between transmission and distribution system operators for integrated AC OPF, offering a more efficient and practical solution for power system operations.
The paper proposes a response-function-based coordination method for transmission-distribution-coupled AC OPF that requires only one or two iterations between TSO and DSO to achieve a nearly optimal solution, with lower computational cost and robustness to objective scale differences compared to typical decomposition methods.
With distributed generation highly integrated into the grid, the transmission-distribution-coupled AC OPF (TDOPF) becomes increasingly important. This paper proposes a response-function-based coordination method to solve the TDOPF. Different from typical decomposition methods, this method employs approximate response functions of the power injections with respect to the bus voltage magnitude in the transmission-distribution (T-D) interface to reflect the "reaction" of the distribution to the transmission system control. By using the response functions, only one or two iterations between the transmission system operator (TSO) and the distribution system operator(s) (DSO(s)) are required to attain a nearly optimal TDOPF solution. Numerical tests confirm that, relative to a typical decomposition method, the proposed method does not only enjoy a cheaper computational cost but is workable even when the objectives of the TSO and the DSO(s) are in distinct scales.