A unified unit commitment — Economic dispatch model for short-term power system scheduling under high wind energy penetration

This paper presents a unified unit commitment and economic dispatch tool for the short-term scheduling of a power system under high renewable penetration. The proposed model uses variable time resolution and scheduling horizon extended up to 36 hours ahead and produces robust real-time decisions making the short-term operation of the power system almost insensitive to RES forecast errors. The proposed model is tested for a monthly period on the Greek interconnected power system using real load and wind power data for two different wind penetration levels. Simulation results show that the proposed methodology allows for the accommodation of large amounts of wind energy into the short-term scheduling of the power system at minimum cost.