Proactive Resilient Day-Ahead Unit Commitment with Cloud Computing Data Centers

To enhance the resilience of power systems toward the temporal and spatial impacts caused by extreme weather events, e.g., hurricanes, the flexibility of cloud data centers (CDCs) is treated as a kind of efficient demand response. Since the workloads of CDCs have the shifting capacity between different locations and time slots, a day-ahead unit commitment problem including data centers is proposed to explore the integrated spatial and temporal flexibility of the workloads to its full extent through task migration. Considering the uncertainty of probability density functions, the line failure rates, workload arrival rates, power loads are integrated into an ambiguity set. The scheduling process of generators and CDCs is modeled as a two-stage distributionally robust optimization problem, which is reformulated as a large-scale deterministic mixed-integer linear programming problem and solved by the multicuts Benders decomposition method. The performance of the proposed scheduling strategy is tested in both the IEEE 24-bus RTS system and the three-area RTS-96 system. The results reveal that the method could mitigate the adverse impacts of hurricanes by enhancing the resilience of power systems and decreasing the dropping workloads of CDCs.