A wind power curtailment reduction strategy using electric vehicles based on individual differential evolution quantum particle swarm optimization algorithm

A wind power curtailment consumption strategy using electric vehicles (EVs) based on individual differential evolution quantum particle swarm optimization algorithm (IDE-QPSO) is proposed, with the objective of reducing the system's wind curtailment in order to further improve the wind power consumption rate while effectively reducing wind power output fluctuation and amplitude. EV aggregators act as charging tariff setters, releasing dynamic time-of-use tariffs (DTOU) for EV clusters to respond to based on wind curtailment data accounted for by the dispatch center. This method first establishes an electric vehicle charging load model based on the travel chain theory and residents' travel rules, then establishes an EV users autonomous response model based on the sensitivity of electric vehicle users to the charging prices. Second, a multi-objective optimization function is established based on the aforementioned model, which integrates wind power curtailment consumption and minimizes wind power output fluctuation and amplitude, and it is solved using an improved quantum particle swarm optimization algorithm. Finally, adequate simulation experiments show that this strategy can effectively smooth out the fluctuation of wind power output and improve the wind power consumption rate. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.