Robust Optimisation for a Smart Grid
Résumé
Smart grid are advanced electrical grids that enable a joint control of the supply and the load. The supply may come from centralised or decentralised power plants or even from an external network. The loads can aggregate several users of various nature. With the decreasing price of renewable energy sources, the engagement of companies to become more environment-friendly and the deregulation of energy markets, an increasing number of actors want to diminish their energy bill by installing batteries, solar panels or wind turbines. Thus, it is essential to assess what the optimal capacities and the potential gains would be. A wide range of optimisation methods have been used in such complex decision problem to find an optimal setting. In this paper we focus on the use of robust optimisation for capacity planning in smart-grids in the presence of uncertainty.