An Alternative Method for Solving Security-Constrained Unit Commitment with Neural Network Based Battery Degradation Model

Battery energy storage system (BESS) can effectively mitigate the uncertainty of variable renewable generation and provide flexible ancillary services. However, degradation is a key concern for rechargeable batteries such as the most widely used Lithium-ion battery. A neural network based battery degradation (NNBD) model can accurately quantify the battery degradation. When incorporating the NNBD model into security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC), we can establish a battery degradation based SCUC (BD-SCUC) model that can consider the equivalent battery degradation cost precisely. However, the BD-SCUC may not be solved directly due to high non-linearity of the NNBD model. To address this issue, the NNBD model is linearized by converting the nonlinear activation function at each neuron into linear constraints, which enables BD-SCUC to become a linearized BD-SCUC (L-BD-SCUC) model. Case studies demonstrate the proposed L-BD-SCUC model can be efficiently solved for multiple BESS buses power system day-ahead scheduling problems with the lowest total cost including the equivalent degradation cost and normal operation cost.