Sustainability, Vol. 15, Pages 15007: A Scenario Generation Method for Typical Operations of Power Systems with PV Integration Considering Weather Factors

Sustainability, Vol. 15, Pages 15007: A Scenario Generation Method for Typical Operations of Power Systems with PV Integration Considering Weather Factors

Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su152015007

Authors: Xinghua Wang Xixian Liu Fucheng Zhong Zilv Li Kaiguo Xuan Zhuoli Zhao

Under the background of large-scale PV (photovoltaic) integration, generating typical operation scenarios of power systems is of great significance for studying system planning operation and electricity markets. Since the uncertainty of PV output and system load is driven by weather factors to some extent, using PV output, system load, and weather data can allow constructing scenarios more accurately. In this study, we used a TimeGAN (time-series generative adversarial network) based on LSTM (long short-term memory) to generate PV output, system load, and weather data. After classifying the generated data using the k-means algorithm, we associated PV output scenarios and load scenarios using the FP-growth algorithm (an association rule mining algorithm), which effectively generated typical scenarios with weather correlations. In this case study, it can be seen that TimeGAN, unlike other GANs, could capture the temporal features of time-series data and performed better than the other examined GANs. The finally generated typical scenario sets also showed interpretable weather correlations.