A Joint Dispatch Operation Method of Hydropower and Photovoltaic: Based on the Two-Stage Hedging Model

The randomness and volatility of large-scale clean energy output represented by wind power and photovoltaic lead to difficulties in grid connection. The problems of abandoned wind, light, and water become increasingly prominent. The adjustment capacity of traditional thermal power is limited and it is difficult to ensure the consumption of high proportion clean energy. On this basis, the marginal benefit hedging rule in economics is introduced into the hydropower and photovoltaic joint operation system in this paper. A two-stage spatio-temporal hedging strategy is designed to solve the spatio-temporal conflict problem in the hydropower and photovoltaic joint system. The multi-objective joint dispatching model of hydropower and photovoltaic system considering system benefits, risks, and stability is established, which can be solved by a MOEA/D-GABS algorithm with selection strategy. The joint system scheduling schemes under different schemes are analyzed by case. The results demonstrate that, compared with the traditional multi-objective decision-making scheme, the flood control risk in each period of the reservoir in the proposed method is controlled to be no more than 1.63 × 10−3 (the flood control standard corresponding to the 50-year flood control risk is 0.006); the flood limit water level of the reservoir is increased from 583.00 m to 583.70 m, which improves the benefit of the reservoir; and the water utilization rate is effectively improved. On the other hand, compared with the traditional scheme, the proposed method reduces the peak valley difference of the combined system by 50.67% and 59.68% in typical sunny and cloudy scenarios, respectively, which greatly reduces the uncertainty of photovoltaic output, and the stability of the combined system is improved. It is shown that the proposed method can be used to guide the economic dispatch of a complementary system with hydropower as the regulating energy.