Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Integrated Facility Location and Production Scheduling in Multi-generation Energy Systems

Multiple energy systems integration has been attracting much attention during the recent years. At the PES General Meeting 2017, I co-chaired a session "Accommodating Intermittent Renewable Energy by Multiple Energy Systems Integration: Forecasting, Operations and Planning", which was very well attended.

In this paper, we tackle the problem from a systems perspective by investigating the network design philosophy and exploring the economic value of the multi-generation technologies under demand uncertainties. The work is certainly out of the mainstream energy forecasting research I have published in the past. Nevertheless, readers of this blog may find it intriguing, because some of the forecasts we produce are going to be fed into the decision making processes for locating power plants and generation scheduling.

Citation

Qiaochu He and Tao Hong, "Integrated facility location and production scheduling in multi-generation energy systems," Operations Research Letters, vol.46, no.1, pp 153-157, January 2018. (working paper; ScienceDirect)

Integrated Facility Location and Production Scheduling in Multi-generation Energy Systems

Qiaochu He and Tao Hong

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the energy system design problems with the multi-generation technologies, i.e., simultaneous generation of multiple types of energy. Our results illustrate the economic value of multi-generation technologies to reduce spatio-temporal demand uncertainty by risk pooling both within and across different facilities.

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