Grid Optimal Integration of Power Ships

TL;DR

This paper presents a model for optimally integrating power ships into power grid operations, coordinating their scheduling and routing to improve grid performance, validated on IEEE bus system case studies.

Contribution

It introduces a novel model that optimally schedules and routes power ships within power grids, enhancing grid operation efficiency.

Findings

Effective coordination of power ships improves grid performance.

Model validated on IEEE 6-bus and 118-bus systems.

Optimal scheduling enhances resource utilization.

Abstract

Power-generating ships or Power Ships (PSs) are considered one of the largest mobile energy resources. In this paper, a model is proposed to evaluate the integration of PSs into power grid operations. The model optimally coordinates the ships to enhance the grid objective; its solution provides optimal generation resource scheduling, as well as optimal scheduling and routing of the ships. IEEE 6-bus and IEEE 118-bus case studies were considered to model the system and to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model.