Interval type-2 fuzzy modeling of wind power generation in Genco's generation scheduling

Wind power is a promising source of electric power generation since it has tremendous environmental and social benefits. The generation scheduling (GS) problem encounters several uncertainties in terms of the system's parameters such as load, reserve and available wind power generation. The modeling of those uncertainties is an important issue in power system scheduling. A fuzzy based modeling approach can be used to develop the generation schedule under an uncertain environment.In this paper, the type-2 fuzzy membership function (MF) is implemented to model the linguistic uncertainty of type-1 MF of available wind power generation which stems from opinions of different experts. The proposed approach is applied to two test systems (six and twenty-six conventional generating units both with two wind farms) and the results of generation scheduling using both fuzzy modeling type-1, and type-2 are presented. These results demonstrate that the advantage of using the type-2 fuzzy to model the linguistic uncertainty of the type-1 MF. This paper demonstrates how unit scheduling in an uncertain environment of type-1 fuzzy MF modeling can be performed just by using a single type-2 fuzzy MF when all type-1 MF were in the footprint of uncertainty (FOU) of type-2 MF.

► Two different types of fuzzy membership function are used to model the uncertainties in generation scheduling problem.
► Uncertainty in type-1 fuzzy modeling will increase the time to reach the best decision of problem.
► Decision making from type-2 fuzzy modeling is easier than type-1 fuzzy modeling.
► Type-2 fuzzy modeling can be used instead of many type-1 fuzzy MF.
► The type-2 fuzzy modeling results show that it can compromise between time consuming and profit.