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An innovative multi-objective optimization approach for long-term energy planning

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  • Mahbub, Md Shahriar
  • Viesi, Diego
  • Cattani, Sara
  • Crema, Luigi

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Designing future energy scenarios is an important topic to energy planners. As designing future optimized scenarios is a multi-objective optimization problem; therefore, it is required to identify trade-off scenarios (Pareto-front) in order to optimize conflicting objectives. In this study, three Pareto-fronts are identified for designing future scenarios for Val di Non (VdN) for three different time horizons. As the community has to reach different emission targets in different time horizons, it is require to select the optimized scenarios that fulfill the targets. In this regards, we propose a new approach for selecting scenarios based on maximizing decision space diversity in order to provide a diverse set of scenarios to the decision makers. The technique is tested on optimized scenarios of VdN and three sets containing 10 diverse scenarios for different time horizons are selected. Moreover, a smooth transition (in terms of decision variables) is desirable when having a transition from a scenario from one time horizon to a consecutive time horizon. A novel method is proposed to choose scenarios from the sets for a smooth transition based on minimizing distances among the scenarios. The approach is applied on VdN where transient scenarios are identified among different possible optimized scenarios.

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  • Mahbub, Md Shahriar & Viesi, Diego & Cattani, Sara & Crema, Luigi, 2017. "An innovative multi-objective optimization approach for long-term energy planning," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 208(C), pages 1487-1504.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:208:y:2017:i:c:p:1487-1504
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.08.245
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