Gaussian Process Learning-based Probabilistic Optimal Power Flow

Abstract

In this letter, we present a novel Gaussian Process Learning-based Probabilistic Optimal Power Flow (GP-POPF) for solving POPF under renewable and load uncertainties of arbitrary distribution. The proposed method relies on a non-parametric Bayesian inference-based uncertainty propagation approach, called Gaussian Process (GP). We also suggest a new type of sensitivity called Subspace-wise Sensitivity, using observations on the interpretability of GP-POPF hyperparameters. The simulation results on 14-bus and 30-bus systems show that the proposed method provides reasonably accurate solutions when compared with Monte-Carlo Simulations (MCS) solutions at different levels of uncertain renewable penetration and load uncertainties. The proposed method requires a lesser number of samples and elapsed time. The non-parametric nature of the proposed method is manifested by testing uncertain injections that follow various distributions in the 118-bus system. The low error value results verify the proposed method's capability of working with different types of input uncertainty distributions.