Construction of Multi-period TSO-DSO Flexibility Regions

Abstract: Active distribution networks (ADN) have grown considerably in recent years. Distributed energy resources present in ADNs can provide flexibility to the power system through TSO/DSO coordination, i.e., at the interface node (feeder) between the transmission and distribution network. This paper addresses the issue of calculating multi-period flexibility regions of the ADNs. Flexibility regions are tightly dependent between periods and conditioned on the actual deployment of such flexibilities in real-time. The existing state-of-the-art has not provided a robust methodology for building multi-period flexible regions. We present a new mathematical framework based on a non-iterative formulation that considers the multi-period flexibility boundary points in a single optimization problem. The proposed methodology is evaluated on IEEE standard test networks and compared with the most widely used methods in the literature.