Impacto da representação da rede elétrica no planejamento da operação de médio prazo

Abstract

The Brazilian Interconnected System has unique characteristics that make it different of any other in the world, such as predominance of hydroelectric power plants and an extensive transmission system. These features, combined with uncertainty in future inflows, leads to necessity of conducting several studies on planning of the operation. The energy operation planning aims to determine targets for hydraulic and thermal generation to meet the consumer energy market with reliability and economy, as well as possible using the available energy resources. For this purpose mathematical models that aims to minimize the expected total cost of the system operation, within a given planning horizon, using different levels of detail are used. The main objective of this work is to evaluate some impacts of the transmission system modeling in the long-term operation planning problem. In this sense, the transmission system is included in its complete form, using nonlinear equations that model the active and reactive power flow in the electrical system. In addition, some operation limits are considered, such as bus voltage limits and power flow limits in the transmission lines and transformers, for each load level. The hydroelectric and thermoelectric plants are represented in an individual form and the producibility function is modeled by fourth degree polynomials. The proposed model uses cost-to-go functions calculated from a long term operation planning program based on equivalent energy systems. In this work the cost-to-go functions produced by MDDH program were used. This program was developed by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). However, it is important to point out that any other model of strategic decision, based on equivalent energy systems, could be used to generate the cost-to-go functions. The proposed methodology is evaluated and validated through the study of medium scale systems and tutorial systems. The main objective is to demonstrate the impact of the detailed transmission system modeling in the total system operating expected total cost and identify differences in operation strategy.