Multi-agent system consistency-based cooperative scheduling strategy of regional integrated energy system

This article presents a multi-agent system (MAS)-consistency-based cooperative scheduling strategy for regional integrated energy system to address the real-time economic scheduling problem with high penetration of multiple flexible loads. First, the MAS-based hierarchical optimal operation framework is developed to perform the real-time scheduling, where the framework with distributed control is further developed into the hierarchical framework with low-dimensional adjacency matrix. Furthermore, the economic scheduling optimization models corresponding to hierarchical distributed control mode and distributed control mode are established. The optimal objective of the proposed control structure is to 1) minimize the total operation cost, 2) optimize the electrical and heat power of all dispatchable units in balancing energy supply-demand. The operational rule of following heat load for hierarchical distributed control mode and a hill-climbing search model for distributed control mode are proposed to achieve the consistency of agents, so as to realize the cooperative optimal dispatch of electricity and heat vectors. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed MAS-based strategy in optimizing the cooperative operation of electricity-heat vectors. The real-time energy generation and load demand can be accurately balanced. The proposed strategy can perform efficient real-time economic scheduling and has satisfied adaptive capability for random variations of flexible loads.