eprintid: 1460 rev_number: 12 eprint_status: archive userid: 6 dir: disk0/00/00/14/60 datestamp: 2013-01-17 10:06:03 lastmod: 2014-01-29 13:58:23 status_changed: 2013-01-17 10:06:03 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Patrinos, Panagiotis creators_name: Bernardini, Daniele creators_name: Maffei, Alessandro creators_name: Jokic, Andrej creators_name: Bemporad, Alberto creators_id: panagiotis.patrinos@imtlucca.it creators_id: daniele.bernardini@imtlucca.it creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: alberto.bemporad@imtlucca.it title: Two-time-scale MPC for economically optimal real-time operation of balance responsible parties ispublished: pub subjects: QA75 subjects: TK divisions: CSA full_text_status: none pres_type: paper keywords: Smart grid; Model predictive control; Hierarchical control abstract: European electrical networks are evolving towards a distributed system where the number of power plants is growing and also the green plants based on renewable energy sources (RES) like wind and solar are increasing. Integration of RES leads to energy imbalance, due to the difficulty to predict their production. This paper proposes a two-time-scale Hierarchical Model Predictive Control (HMPC) strategy for real-time optimal control of Balance Responsible Parties (BRPs) in power systems with high penetration of renewable energy sources (RES). The proposed control strategy is able to handle ramp-rate constraints efficiently and results in reduced generation and imbalance costs due to real-time economic optimization of power setpoints. date: 2012-09 date_type: published publisher: IFAC pagerange: 741-746 event_title: IFAC 8th Power Plant and Power Systems Control Symposium event_location: Tolouse, France event_dates: 02 - 05 September 2012 event_type: conference id_number: 10.3182/20120902-4-FR-2032.00129 refereed: TRUE isbn: 978-3-902823-24-3 book_title: Proceedings of the IFAC 8th Power Plant and Power Systems Control Symposium official_url: http://www.ifac-papersonline.net/Detailed/58515.html citation: Patrinos, Panagiotis and Bernardini, Daniele and Maffei, Alessandro and Jokic, Andrej and Bemporad, Alberto Two-time-scale MPC for economically optimal real-time operation of balance responsible parties. In: Proceedings of the IFAC 8th Power Plant and Power Systems Control Symposium. IFAC, pp. 741-746. ISBN 978-3-902823-24-3 (2012)