Optimization of Residential Electricity Consumption based on Multienergy Coordinated Control of Generation, Load, and Storage

Introduction: The power system is translating to the “generation, network, load, and storage multiple coordination control” model, which helps to increase the proportion of renewable energy consumption and reduce the operation cost. Materiala and Methods: The residential electrical system is an important component in the power system, which includes distributed photovoltaic systems, flexible loads, electric vehicles, and battery storage systems, which have the potential to realize multiple coordination control and minimize the net cost of the electricity consumption in a residential electrical system by the coordinated cooperation of generation, flexible loads, and the battery storage system. The comfort level of the residents is also maintained during control. Therefore, a nonlinear economic model is introduced to represent coordinated cooperation of generation, flexible loads, and the battery storage system, and a nonlinear economic predictive controller is proposed to solve the problems of this model. Results: Based on the forecasted generation/load for a tumbling prediction window, the impact of different control trajectories is estimated, then the minimum cost trajectory for flexible loads and battery is selected, and only the first control action is implemented. Then, the prediction window is moved to the next time interval, and the same process is repeated. The case study shows that the proposed method reduces about 24.36% of the net cost of the residential electrical system. Conclusion: Meanwhile, the hot-water temperature and indoor temperature of the household are maintained without affecting the end-user comfort, and the state-of-charge (SOC) for the electric vehicle and the battery system is always kept under constraints without affecting usage. The proposed method has a good performance for the coordinated cooperation of generation, flexible loads, and battery storage system in the residential electrical system. The proposed method also increases the consumption of PV, with the implementation in more residential buildings that will benefit in achieving carbon neutrality by 2060 in China.