Impacts of carbon trading and wind power integration on carbon emission in the power dispatching process

Currently, many low-carbon approaches are being applied in the power dispatching process, such as dynamic economic emission dispatch (DEED), wind power integration and carbon trading. Furthermore, these approaches may influence the carbon emission from electricity. To investigate such joint influence, this paper firstly builds a stochastic DEED model in the forms of chance-constrained programming related to wind power uncertainties. After that, the established model is transformed to a deterministic form by discussing relevant statistical characteristics. Next, an auxiliary decision-making method is designed to draw the optimal dispatching solution upon real-time price of carbon trading. Finally, empirical analysis shows that: (1) the minimization of carbon emissions and fuel costs comes at the expense of the reliability of wind power integrated system, for reasons that the decrement rate of thermal power output is about 60.8% from higher reliability level to lower level, (2) the decrement rate of carbon emissions (0.01%–0.012%) is superior to the growth rate of fuel costs (0.0011%–0.0022%) as the carbon trading price increases, which proves that carbon emission reduction can be effectively realized by carbon trading rather than substantial increase in fuel costs, and (3) carbon trading is conducive to the improvement of carbon emission efficiency.