Feedback Enhancement of Time Series Aggregation for Power System Expansion Planning

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Ruiqi, Sharifnia, Ensieh, Tindemans, Simon H.
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author Zhang, Ruiqi
Sharifnia, Ensieh
Tindemans, Simon H.
author_facet Zhang, Ruiqi
Sharifnia, Ensieh
Tindemans, Simon H.
contents As a consequence of the high variability of load demand and renewable generation, long-term and high-resolution inputs are required for power system expansion planning, making the problem intractable in real-world applications. Time series aggregation (TSA), which captures representative patterns, reduces temporal complexity while providing similar planning outputs. However, purely statistical clustering, even when enhanced with predefined ``extremes'', can overlook system-specific critical operating conditions, making it unreliable across real-world systems. Therefore, this paper links TSA accuracy on specific system operation and final solution quality, which becomes a practical bound with mean-based TSA approaches. It is observed that the distribution of operational errors is highly imbalanced, such that a few representatives dominate the total error. This paper proposes an adaptive clustering strategy based on feedback enhancement of TSA that iteratively identifies poor-performing representatives with high operational error and re-clusters only their associated periods. A study shows that the feedback enhancement improves the decision error and tighten the bound significantly compared with the plain mean-based clustering method, offering a diagnostic for TSA quality, while balancing the computational effort with solution accuracy.
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spellingShingle Feedback Enhancement of Time Series Aggregation for Power System Expansion Planning
Zhang, Ruiqi
Sharifnia, Ensieh
Tindemans, Simon H.
Optimization and Control
As a consequence of the high variability of load demand and renewable generation, long-term and high-resolution inputs are required for power system expansion planning, making the problem intractable in real-world applications. Time series aggregation (TSA), which captures representative patterns, reduces temporal complexity while providing similar planning outputs. However, purely statistical clustering, even when enhanced with predefined ``extremes'', can overlook system-specific critical operating conditions, making it unreliable across real-world systems. Therefore, this paper links TSA accuracy on specific system operation and final solution quality, which becomes a practical bound with mean-based TSA approaches. It is observed that the distribution of operational errors is highly imbalanced, such that a few representatives dominate the total error. This paper proposes an adaptive clustering strategy based on feedback enhancement of TSA that iteratively identifies poor-performing representatives with high operational error and re-clusters only their associated periods. A study shows that the feedback enhancement improves the decision error and tighten the bound significantly compared with the plain mean-based clustering method, offering a diagnostic for TSA quality, while balancing the computational effort with solution accuracy.
title Feedback Enhancement of Time Series Aggregation for Power System Expansion Planning
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24249