Comprehensive Decision-Making Method for DC Transformation Object of Medium Voltage AC Distribution Network

The trend of DC development in the medium voltage AC distribution network is obvious. However, due to the constraints of reliability, cost, and power quality, not every AC distribution network is suitable for DC transformation. As for the AC distribution network suitable for DC transformation, it is necessary to solve the problems of multivariable constraint solutions and the demand for sorting and optimizing multi-schemes in DC transformation. Therefore, this study proposes a comprehensive decision-making method for the DC transformation object of the medium voltage AC distribution network. Firstly, a comprehensive evaluation index system for DC transformation is established from four aspects: improving power supply reliability, technical requirements, social benefits, and economic benefits. Among them, the reliability of power supply mainly examines the completion degree of the target. In terms of the technical requirements of DC transformation, it is necessary to consider the constraints of AC transformation and the driving force of DC transformation. As for the social benefits, it reflects the indirect demand for DC transformation, which reflects social development. In terms of economic benefits, it pays attention to the transformation cost and input–output ratio. Then, the combined optimization model is used to solve the index’s comprehensive weight based on the subjective and objective weight model. Moreover, the comprehensive evaluation value of the transformation object is determined by the double-base point method. The scheme optimization model is used to determine the final transformation scheme to guide the power grid enterprises to prioritize the DC transformation projects. Finally, several medium-voltage distribution networks in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, are taken as examples to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

1 Introduction

The traditional AC distribution network faces the following difficulties: 1) because of the rapid growth of urban power supply load, the load demand and pressure of power supply reliability increase; 2) the continuous development of high-tech industries has higher requirements for power quality; and 3) the reform of the new energy system has led to a continuous surge in urban renewable energy penetration, which puts forward higher requirements for the ability of the grid to absorb clean energy. However, the traditional AC transformation has technical bottlenecks in solving these new problems: 1) under the constraints of space resources, it is difficult to meet the higher requirements of high-density urban loads for power supply capacity; 2) it is difficult to meet the requirements of safe, flexible, and efficient access of renewable energy under the constraints of frequency, phase, and angle; 3) under short-term interruption constraints of power outage transfer, it is difficult to meet the requirements of sensitive loads for uninterrupted high-quality power supply; 4) it is difficult to meet the requirements of the distribution network for closed-loop operation power accommodation under open-loop operation constraints; and 5) under the constraints of the technology level of current distribution equipment, it is difficult to meet the requirements of the distribution network for capacity expansion without exceeding the short-circuit current. The above technical bottlenecks make the DC transformation an important consideration. How to select the object of DC transformation and determine its sequence has become the first consideration. Therefore, this study focuses on the decision-making method for the DC transformation object of the medium voltage AC distribution network.

In the DC transformation, the bipolar three-wire DC distribution network system has more advantages than the urban AC distribution network: 1) the power supply capacity can be increased to about 1.6 times of the original (Rentschler et al., 2018), which is conducive to greatly improving the power supply capacity under the condition of limited space resources and solving the demand problem of rapid load growth; 2) according to the active power dispatching instruction of the system, the converter can realize the power fusion under the closed-loop operation and improve the power supply reliability; 3) through the fast controllability of power electronic equipment and the rational allocation of energy storage devices, high quality power supply of important loads can be realized (Wang et al., 2020), which can solve the problems of the development of high-tech industries; 4) compared with AC, DC grids do not have the frequency and phase angle problem, which can solve the problem of clean energy access; and 5) the current control effect of the inverter can significantly inhibit the short-circuit current. Based on the above analysis, this study determines the means of DC transformation: transforming the urban AC distribution network into a bipolar three-wire DC distribution network system.

Under the limited investment conditions, how to formulate a reasonable DC transformation and investment plan is the concern of power supply enterprises. At present, there are few studies on the DC transformation of urban distribution networks. Rentschler et al. (2018) analyzed the advantages of power supply capacity in DC transformation of the urban distribution network. Chen et al. (2019) comparatively analyzed three DC distribution application scenarios and showed that DC transformation can effectively reduce transmission loss and meet the needs of green power grid development. Cui et al. (2019) proposed an AC/DC party-line power distribution scheme based on Z-type transformer and showed the feasibility and technical advantages of the scheme. Li et al. (2020) used empirical mode decomposition (EMD) for data preprocessing and then evaluated the DC power quality after transformation based on the neural network. Huang et al. (2020) evaluated the DC transformation scheme of the power grid in a large city based on the analytic hierarchy process and entropy weight method. However, all the above studies evaluated the DC transformation of a single distribution network, lacking the basis for selecting this single distribution network for DC transformation. Moreover, the influence of the AC transformation bottleneck on the optimization of DC transformation objects of the urban distribution network is not considered.

In order to formulate a reasonable DC transformation strategy, it is necessary to make comprehensive decisions on multiple urban distribution networks and optimize the distribution network that can give full play to the advantages of DC transformation and maximize the comprehensive benefits of DC transformation. The comprehensive decision-making of urban distribution network transformation objects is an optimization problem, including the establishment of comprehensive evaluation indexes and the optimization of objects under the comprehensive decision-making model. At present, there are a few studies on comprehensive decision-making of distribution network transformation objects. Zhao and Li (2021) proposed evaluation indexes based on the pressure-state-response (PSR) model, combined with principal component analysis and correlation analysis to screen redundant indexes, thus constructing a dynamic energy efficiency index system to evaluate and transform the energy efficiency of industrial park users. Chen et al. (2020) considered the economy and efficiency of social capital participating in the operation of the distribution network, which can make comprehensive decisions on the transformation objects and planning schemes of the distribution network. However, there is still a lack of research on the comprehensive decision-making of DC transformation objects in the urban distribution network. Zhao and Li (2021) and Chen et al. (2020) mentioned that the research subjects are traditional AC transformation objects. Without considering the characteristics of DC transformation, they cannot reflect the direct demand for DC transformation, which can have the driving force by replacing the AC transformation constraints in the urban distribution network, or the indirect demand for DC transformation, which is driven by social development.

At present, the research on decision-making methods mainly focuses on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (Huang et al., 2020), interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy method (De Miguel et al., 2016; Ma and Zhang, 2020), and entropy weight method (Zhao and Li, 2021; Wang et al., 2017; Hu et al. 2020), among others. However, the above methods have some shortcomings in practical engineering: 1) the analytical method ignores the fuzziness and uncertainty of decision-makers; 2) the process of establishing interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy judgment matrix and the consistency test is complicated, and experts’ risk attitude is not considered effectively; 3) the entropy weight method ignores the value information brought by the correlation and conflict of index data; and 4) there is a lack of effective integration of subjective and objective value information.

According to the above problems, this study proposes a comprehensive decision-making method for the DC transformation object of the urban distribution network, which can make a decision by constructing an evaluation index system, solving the index weight, and determining the comprehensive evaluation value. Firstly, this study constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system of DC transformation objects of the urban distribution network from four aspects: power supply quality improvement demand, DC transformation demand, social benefit demand, and transformation economical efficiency demand. Then, the improved G2 method and the improved criteria importance through the intercriteria correlation weight method (CRITIC) are used to solve the comprehensive weight through the relative entropy combinatorial optimization model, and the comprehensive evaluation value of the object is calculated based on the double-base point method. Combined with the scheme selection model, the optimal scheme is determined to arrange the investment in DC transformation reasonably. Finally, the effectiveness of the method is verified by an example.

2 Comprehensive Evaluation Index System

In order to determine the construction priority of DC transformation objects of the urban distribution network, this study establishes a comprehensive evaluation index system, considering the power supply quality improvement demand, DC transformation demand, social benefit demand, and transformation economical efficiency demand. The structure of this system is shown in Figure 1. The index system aims to guide the optimization of DC transformation objects of the urban distribution network and maximize the comprehensive benefits of DC transformation investment.

FIGURE 1

FIGURE 1. Comprehensive evaluation index system of DC transformation object of the urban distribution network.

2.1 The Power Supply Quality Improvement Demand

Improving power supply reliability is the main task of traditional distribution network transformation. In practical engineering, the average reliability rate of power supply and system average interruption frequency index are the main indexes, reflecting the continuity of power supply. In addition, the quality of voltage directly affects the power supply availability and cannot be ignored in the distribution network transformation.

Accordingly, this study uses the power supply quality (Zhao and Li, 2021) covering the above two aspects to characterize the continuous availability of power supply in the distribution network. The power supply quality in this study is comprehensively characterized by the average reliability rate of power supply, the system average interruption frequency index, and the voltage qualification rate (Chen et al., 2020; De Miguel et al., 2016). In the actual planning, it is necessary to consider the matching degree between the current situation of power supply quality and the target level to guide the optimization of the transformation objects. Therefore, this study introduces the fulfillment degree of reliability rate of power supply I₁, the fulfillment degree of interruption frequency I₂, and the fulfillment degree of voltage qualification rate I₃, which can reflect the demand for power supply quality improvement in the distribution network. The definition is as follows:

$\{\begin{array}{l}{I}_1=\left(R_{\text{ASAI}-1}/R_{\text{ASAI}-\text{T}}\right)\times 100\text{\%}\hfill \\ I_2=\left(R_{\text{SAIFI}-\text{T}}/R_{\text{SAIFI}-1}\right)\times 100\text{\%}\hfill \\ I_3=\left(R_{\text{VQR}-1}/R_{\text{VQR}-\text{T}}\right)\times 100\text{\%}\hfill \end{array}(1)$

In this formula, R_ASAI-1, R_SAIFI-1, R_VQR-1 and R_ASAI-T, R_SAIFI-T, R_VQR-T are the current and target values of the average reliability rate of power supply, system average interruption frequency, and voltage qualification rate of the distribution network, respectively.

The above target values are different from different power supply zones. Usually, the power supply enterprises formulate corresponding planning objectives according to the five types of power supply zones and can be selected according to the actual situation in engineering application.

2.2 DC Transformation Demand of the Distribution Network

In addition to the power supply quality improvement demand, the comprehensive decision-making method of DC transformation objects in the urban distribution network also needs to focus on the DC demand of the urban distribution network. In this regard, from the source-load characteristics, network-side security, and the construction conditions of distribution lines, this study sets up five DC transformation demanding indicators of the distribution network to reflect the different planning areas and different transformation demands of different scenes. The indicators are shown in Figure 1.

The comprehensive proportion of renewable energy sources (RES) and the comprehensive proportion of sensitive loads reflect the DC demand of source-load characteristics in the distribution network, which is from the two aspects of the safe and efficient access demand for RES and the high power supply quality demand for sensitive loads. Short-circuit current margin and line load imbalance reflect the DC demand of network-side security from two aspects of the constraint of substation capacity expansion and the incoordination of line development. From the perspective of spatial resource constraints, the difficulty of distribution line expansion reflects the limited expansion of AC lines with different planning objects and the demand for DC lines with high transmission capacity. The above indicators establish an evaluation system from the three dimensions of source, network, and load, which comprehensively reflects the DC demand for the urban distribution network.

2.2.1 DC Transformation Demand Based on Source and Load Characteristics

Compared with AC, there is no synchronization problem and power quality problem caused by frequency and phase angle in DC distribution, and the reasonable configuration of voltage source converter can effectively play a role in power quality control, which satisfies the demand for renewable energy development for flexible and efficient access, as well as the demand for sensitive load development for high power quality (Wang et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2017). Therefore, this study sets the comprehensive proportion of RES and sensitive load to reflect the DC transformation demand of source and load characteristics for the urban distribution network.

The comprehensive proportion index of RES is defined as

$\{\begin{array}{l}\begin{array}{c}{I}_4=({\alpha }_{\text{RES}}\frac{{\displaystyle \sum P_{\text{RES}\text{.0}}^{\text{N}i}}}{P_{\text{L}\text{.0}}^{\max }}+{\beta }_{\text{RES}}\frac{{\displaystyle \sum P_{\text{RES}\text{.}1}^{\text{N}i}}}{P_{\text{L}\text{.}1}^{\max }}\\ +{\gamma }_{\text{RES}}\frac{{\displaystyle \sum P_{\text{RES}\text{.}2}^{\text{N}i}}}{P_{\text{L}\text{.}2}^{\max }})\times 100\text{\%}\end{array}\hfill \\ {\alpha }_{\text{RES}}+{\beta }_{\text{RES}}+{\gamma }_{\text{RES}}=1\hfill \end{array}(2)$

In this formula, $P_{\text{RES}.0}^{\text{N}i}$, $P_{\text{RES}.1}^{\text{N}i}$, $P_{\text{RES}.2}^{\text{N}i}$ are the statistical region’s current, short-term, and medium-term rated active power of the type i RES, respectively. $P_{\text{L}.0}^{\max }$, $P_{\text{L}.0}^{\max }$, $P_{\text{L}.0}^{\max }$ are the statistical region’s current, short-term, and medium-term load peak, respectively. ${\alpha }_{\text{RES}}$, ${\beta }_{\text{RES}}$, ${\gamma }_{\text{RES}}$ are the statistical region’s current, short-term, and medium-term weight coefficient of RES proportion in comprehensive proportion. According to the specific situation, they can be given by experts. In this study, they are set to 0.3, 0.4, and 0.3, respectively.

Sensitive loads refer to the user loads that cannot work normally or causes serious losses when the voltage drops instantaneously or breaks shortly (Hu et al., 2020). This kind of loads has high requirements for voltage quality and power supply reliability. The comprehensive proportion index of sensitive loads $I_5$ in this study reflects the demand degrees of loads for the DC distribution network with high power supply quality, which is defined as

$\{\begin{array}{l}\begin{array}{c}{I}_5=({\alpha }_{\text{SL}}\frac{{\displaystyle \sum P_{\text{SL}\text{.0}}^{\text{N}j}}}{P_{\text{L}\text{.0}}^{\max }}+{\beta }_{\text{SL}}\frac{{\displaystyle \sum P_{\text{SL}\text{.}1}^{\text{N}j}}}{P_{\text{L}\text{.}1}^{\max }}\\ +{\gamma }_{\text{SL}}\frac{{\displaystyle \sum P_{\text{SL}\text{.}2}^{\text{N}j}}}{P_{\text{L}\text{.}2}^{\max }})\times 100\text{\%}\end{array}\hfill \\ {\alpha }_{\text{SL}}+{\beta }_{\text{SL}}+{\gamma }_{\text{SL}}=1\hfill \end{array}(3)$

In this formula, $P_{\text{SL}.0}^{\text{N}i}$, $P_{\text{SL}.0}^{\text{N}i}$, $P_{\text{SL}.0}^{\text{N}i}$ are the statistical region’s current, short-term, and medium-term rated power of the type j RES, respectively, and ${\alpha }_{\text{SL}}$, ${\beta }_{\text{SL}}$, ${\gamma }_{\text{SL}}$ are the current, short-term, and medium-term weight coefficient of sensitive load proportion in comprehensive proportion. According to the specific situation, they can be given by experts. In this study, they are set to 0.3, 0.4, and 0.4, respectively.

2.2.2 DC Transformation Demand Based on Network-Side Security

According to the security constraints of the heterogeneity of short-circuit current level and line load development on the AC distribution network capacity expansion, this study sets short-circuit current margin and line load imbalance index to reflect the DC transformation demand of network-side security.

In the traditional AC distribution network, substation capacity expansion improves the power supply capacity to meet the demand for growing loads, which may lead to excessive short-circuit current of the distribution network and difficult selection of circuit breakers and even affect the safety of the whole network. If the line is expanded by the DC transformation, the short-circuit current will not be significantly increased due to the current control effect of the inverter, which is conducive to the short-circuit current control of the AC system (Wang et al., 2020).

In addition, due to the open-loop operation mode of the traditional AC distribution network, the heterogeneity of line load development will significantly affect the load transfer capacity, reduce the reliability of power supply, and cause a crisis in the safety of the distribution network. However, AC lines are interconnected through DC transformation, and the power flow control ability of the converter can effectively balance the line load rate and maintain the benign development of distribution network lines.

The short-circuit current margin $I_6$ and line load imbalance $I_7$ are set to reflect the DC transformation demand of network-side security, which are defined as

$I_6=\left(1-\frac{I_{\text{F}}^{\max }}{I_{\text{F}}^{\text{CL}}}\right)\times 100\text{\%}(4)$

In the formula, $I_{\text{F}}^{\max }$ is the short-circuit current peak value of the distribution network; $I_{\text{F}}^{\text{CL}}$ is the short-circuit current control level of the distribution network; and the medium voltage distribution network is generally 20 kV:

$I_7=1-\left(-\frac{1}{\ln L}{\displaystyle \sum \frac{{\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}{{\displaystyle \sum {\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}}}\ln \frac{{\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}{{\displaystyle \sum {\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}}\right)(5)$

In the formula, L is the line return; ${\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}$ is the load rate for the circuit l; and $\frac{1}{\ln L}{\displaystyle \sum \frac{{\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}{{\displaystyle \sum {\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}}}\ln \frac{{\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}{{\displaystyle \sum {\eta }_{\text{LLR}l}}}$ is the information entropy for line load rate. The index reflects the unbalanced degree of line loads with the concept of entropy. Besides, the larger the index value, the more unbalanced the line load.

2.2.3 DC Transformation Demand Based on Construction Conditions of Distribution Lines

The national standard GB 50217 points out that the selection of cable path should be convenient for laying and maintenance and ensure the shortest path under the condition of meeting the safety requirements (Liao et al., 2016). The DC transformation of AC lines into bipolar three-line DC lines can increase the power supply capacity to about 1.6 times the original. In the complex areas of the underground pipe network, such as the urban center, it can effectively reduce the laying path of cable lines and the late operation and maintenance and reduce the influence of cable line laying and maintenance on the complex underground pipe network. It has the advantages of construction and maintenance and economic advantages. On the contrary, when using overhead lines, the high transmission capacity of DC distribution lines can also effectively reduce the occupied corridor of overhead lines. In the urban center area with the high land price and difficult new corridors, DC overhead lines will play obvious economic and construction advantages. Therefore, this study sets the difficulty of distribution line expansion (index I₈) to reflect the demand for space resource constraints for the DC distribution network. The index I₈ in this study is defined as

$I_8=\left(I_8^{\text{pipe}}+I_8^{\text{line}}\right)/2(6)$

In the formula, $I_8^{\text{pipe}}$ is the complexity of the underground pipe network and $I_8^{\text{line}}$ is the difficulty of the construction of the overhead line corridor. In addition, the indexes $I_8^{\text{pipe}}$ and $I_8^{\text{line}}$ in this study are defined as qualitative indexes, which can be obtained by the Delphi-gold segmentation cloud generation method (Okoli and Pawlowski, 2004). Its calculation is shown in Supplementary Table SA2.

2.3 Social Benefit Demand

Social benefit demand is the indirect demand for social development for DC transformation of urban distribution network, including social and economic benefits demand, ecological and environmental benefits demand, and optimizing the allocation of social resources demand.

Social and economic benefit demand refers to the indirect promotion effect of DC transformation on social and economic development, which is characterized by the ratio of gross domestic product (GDP) of loads to total electricity consumption, reflecting the social and economic value of unit electricity consumption. The social and economic benefit demand is defined as

$I_9=\frac{M_{\text{GDP}}}{E_{\text{year}}}(7)$

In the formula, $E_{\text{year}}$ is the total power consumption of loads in the distribution network in 1 year.

The safe and efficient consumption of RES after DC transformation of the distribution network can effectively reduce the emissions of ${\text{SO}}_2$ and ${\text{NO}}_x$ and dust from coal-fired power plants (${\text{SO}}_2$, ${\text{NO}}_x$ and dust are the main causes of acid rain and PM2.5 in urban areas). According to the main composition of primary energy in the region, where the distribution network is located, and the degree of regional requirements for ecological environment protection and governance, the ecological environment benefit demand for DC transformation is determined. The ecological environment benefit demand (index I₁₀) in this study is defined as a qualitative index obtained by the Delphi-gold segmentation cloud generation method. The specific calculation is shown in Supplementary Table SA3.

The DC transformation of the distribution network can directly or indirectly promote the development of related industries to promote social employment (State Grid Corporation of China estimates that every 100 million RMB investment will increase 700 people’s employment) and play the employment benefits (Liu et al., 2019). In addition, the large-scale consumption of RES after DC transformation can alleviate the transportation and scheduling problem of primary energy to a certain extent and alleviate the pressure of land and water transportation (State Grid Corporation of China, 2017). In addition, the DC transformation also plays a positive role in promoting technological upgrading and innovation, ensuring the power market. According to the local labor, traffic, and other conditions, optimizing the allocation of social resources demand is determined. Like the ecological environment benefit demand, optimizing the allocation of social resources demand (index I₁₁) is also a qualitative index. Its specific calculation is shown in Supplementary Table SA4.

2.4 Transformation Economical Efficiency Demand

The transformation economical efficiency demand of the urban distribution network is the effective control of the cost of transformation investment, financial anti-risk ability, and capital efficiency under the premise of reaching the target level of power supply quality, power supply capacity, and RES access capacity, which means meeting the established transformation goal. In this study, the economic indicators of the DC transformation include investment costs, the payback period, and the internal rate of return (Ministry of Construction of the People’s Republic of China, 2007). Among them, the investment cost is defined as

$I_{12}=G_1+G_2(8)$

In the formula, G₁ is the cost of equipment purchase, installation, and debugging fees and G₂ is the fees for the research and design of new projects and the land renovation and construction.

3 The Comprehensive Decision-Making Model

In this study, a comprehensive decision-making model is designed to optimize the DC transformation objects of the urban distribution network. The steps are as follows: 1) compute the comprehensive weight based on the subjective and objective weight model; 2) solve the comprehensive value of the evaluation objects based on the double-base point method; and 3) constrained by the industry benchmark of total annual investment and financial-economic indicators, the final scheme is determined with the maximum total evaluation value of the scheme as the optimization objective. The process of comprehensive decision-making is shown in Figure 2.

FIGURE 2

FIGURE 2. Comprehensive decision process.

3.1 The Solution of Comprehensive Weights

The comprehensive decision-making of DC transformation objects in the urban distribution network is a complex multi-index evaluation and optimization problem (Shen et al., 2019). The rationality of index weight is crucial to the evaluation results. A simple subjective or objective weight model has one-sidedness and little credibility (Wang et al., 2021). Therefore, this study combines the subjectivity and objectivity of the improved G2 method and the improved CRITIC method to optimize the combination weighting through the relative-entropy model.

3.1.1 Preprocessing the Indicators

Assuming that $p$ evaluation objects have common $q$ evaluation indexes $\mathit{I}=\text{{}{I}_1,I_2,\cdot \cdot \cdot ,I_q\text{}}$ and the corresponding index value of the object $S_i$ is $x_{ij}$ ( $i=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,p$ , $j=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,q$ ), the multi-attribute decision matrix $\mathit{X}={\left[x_{ij}\right]}_{p\times q}$ composed of $q$ indexes of $p$ objects is preprocessed to obtain the normalized standard matrix $\mathit{C}={\left[c_{ij}\right]}_{p\times q}$, and there is

$c_{ij}=\{\begin{array}{l}\frac{x_{ij}-\underset{j}{\min }\mathit{X}}{\underset{j}{\max }\mathit{X}-\underset{j}{\min }\mathit{X}},I_j\in {\mathit{I}}_{\text{benefit}}\hfill \\ \frac{\underset{j}{\max }\mathit{X}-x_{ij}}{\underset{j}{\max }\mathit{X}-\underset{j}{\min }\mathit{X}},I_j\in {\mathit{I}}_{\text{cost}}\hfill \end{array}(9)$

In this formula, ${\mathit{I}}_{\text{benefit}}$ and ${\mathit{I}}_{\text{cost}}$ are the indicator set of efficiency and cost, respectively.

3.1.2 Improved G2 Method

The G2 method is a function-driven subjective weighting method. This method judges the importance of indicators according to expert experience, which can effectively consider the fuzziness of expert experience and the risk state of expert individuals. It is particularly practical in dealing with uncertain decision-making problems (Xie et al., 2010).

In this study, the improved G2 method is introduced on the basis of the original G2 method. The comprehensive decision-making index system is divided into the target layer, criterion layer, and index layer, and the hierarchical structure is shown in Figure 1. Let an upper index be described by the corresponding lower index set $\text{{}{I^{\prime }}_1,{I^{\prime }}_2,\cdot \cdot \cdot ,{I^{\prime }}_o\text{}}$ , and the steps of the improved G2 method are as follows:

(1) First, determine the least important indicators in the index set, denoted as ${I^{\prime }}_{ho}$ ($h=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,o$), and reorder the index set as $\text{{}{I^{\prime }}_{h1},{I^{\prime }}_{h2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,{I^{\prime }}_{ho}\text{}}$ according to the order relation method.

(2) Then, $D_{h^{\prime }}$, as the ratio of the importance of the indicator ${I^{\prime }}_{h{h}^{\prime }}$ ($h^{\prime }=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,o-1$) to the sole reference ${I^{\prime }}_{ho}$, is determined:

$\frac{{I^{\prime }}_{h{h}^{\prime }}}{{I^{\prime }}_{ho}}\iff \{\begin{array}{l}{D}_{h^{\prime }}=a_{h^{\prime }},d_{1h^{\prime }}=d_{2h^{\prime }}\hfill \\ D_{h^{\prime }}=[d_{1h^{\prime }},d_{2h^{\prime }}],d_{1h^{\prime }}<d_{2h^{\prime }}\hfill \end{array}(10)$

If $d_{1h^{\text{'}}}=d_{2h\text{'}}$, the value of $D_{h^{\text{'}}}$ is $a_{h^{\text{'}}}$; if $d_{1h^{\text{'}}}<d_{2h^{\text{'}}}$, the value of $D_{h^{\text{'}}}$ is within the interval $[d_{1h^{\text{'}}},d_{2h^{\text{'}}}]$; and $\forall h^{\text{'}}$ always satisfies the $1\le d_{1h^{\text{'}}}\le d_{2h^{\text{'}}}$.

(3) After that, the index weight $u_{h^{\text{'}}}$ is calculated according to the ratio of importance:

$u_{h^{\prime }}=R_{h^{\prime }}/{\displaystyle \sum _{h^{\prime }=1}^o{R}_{h^{\prime }}}\text{,}{R}_{h^{\prime }}=\{\begin{array}{l}{a}_{h^{\prime }}\text{ , }{d}_{1h^{\prime }}=d_{2h^{\prime }}\hfill \\ {\delta }_{\left(D_{h^{\prime }}\right)}^{\epsilon },d_{1h^{\prime }}<d_{2h^{\prime }}\hfill \end{array}(11)$

In this formula, ${\delta }_{\left(D_{h^{\prime }}\right)}^{\epsilon }=m\left(D_{h^{\prime }}\right)+\epsilon l\left(D_{h^{\prime }}\right)$ is the interval mapping function with the risk attitude of experts. In the mapping, $m\left(D_{h^{\prime }}\right)=(d_{2h^{\prime }}+d_{1h^{\prime }})/2$, $l\left(D_{h^{\prime }}\right)=d_{2h^{\prime }}-d_{1h^{\prime }}$ are the width and median of the interval $D_{h^{\prime }}$, respectively; as for the risk state factor $\epsilon$, conservative experts take $-0.5\le \delta \le 0$; neutral experts take $\epsilon =0$; risk experts take $0\le \epsilon \le 0.5$; and $h^{\prime }=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,o-1,o$. If $h^{\prime }=o$, then $R_{h^{\prime }}=a_{h^{\prime }}=1$.

(4) Finally, the weight obtained is multiplied layer by layer to get the subjective weight vector $\mathit{U}={\left[u_j\right]}_{1\times q}$ of the final improved G2 method.

3.1.3 Improved CRITIC Method

The CRITIC method (Lin et al., 2018) is a new weighting method for solving weights based on objective data. This method can consider both the comparative strength between transformation objects and the degree of conflict between evaluation indexes so that the weight is objective and accurate. Among them, the contrast intensity reflects the difference of different objects in the same index, which is quantified by standard deviation. The degree of conflict reflects the correlation between different indicators and is quantified by the correlation coefficient.

In this study, the original CRITIC method is improved as follows: 1) the contrast strength between indicators is reflected by the coefficient of variation, and the defects that standard deviation is susceptible to dimension and the mean value are corrected. 2) The absolute value of the correlation coefficient reflects the degree of conflict between indicators and corrects the defect that the original correlation coefficient cannot reflect the same correlation when the positive and negative correlations have the same absolute values; 3) redundancy information entropy (Iuculano et al., 2007) is introduced to reflect the dispersion of indicators so that the empowerment process integrates contrasting strength, conflict degree, and dispersion. The model of the improved CRITIC method based on the objective weighting calculation is

$\{\begin{array}{l}{s}_j=\frac{1}{{\overline{c}}_j}\sqrt{\frac{1}{p}{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^p{\left(c_{ij}-{\overline{c}}_j\right)}^2}}\\ r_{j{j}^{\prime }}=\frac{\frac{1}{{\overline{c}}_j{\overline{c}}_{j^{\prime }}}{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^p\left(c_{ij}-{\overline{c}}_j\right)\left(c_{i{j}^{\prime }}-{\overline{c}}_{j^{\prime }}\right)}}{s_j{s}_{j^{\prime }}}\\ {\rho }_j=1+\frac{1}{\ln p}{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^p\left(z_{ij}\ln z_{ij}\right),z_{ij}=c_{ij}/{\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^p{c}_{ij}}}\\ M_j=\left(s_j+{\rho }_j\right){\displaystyle \sum _{j^{\prime }=1}^q\left(1-\left|r_{j{j}^{\prime }}\right|\right)}\\ v_j=M_j/{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^q{M}_j}\\ j,j^{\prime }=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,q;j\ne j^{\prime }\end{array}(12)$

In this formula, $s_j$ and $s_{j^{\prime }}$ are the variation coefficients of indexes $I_j$ and $I_{j^{\prime }}$, respectively; ${\overline{c}}_j$ and ${\overline{c}}_{j^{\prime }}$ are the mean values of normalized index value; $r_{j{j}^{\prime }}$ is the correlation coefficient of indexes j and j'; $c_{i{j}^{\prime }}$ is the normalized index value of index $I_{j^{\prime }}$ of object $S_i$; ${\rho }_j$ is the redundant information entropy of index $I_j$; $z_{ij}$ is the proportion of normalized index value; $M_j$ is the information contained in index $I_j$ (the larger $M_j$, the greater the amount of information contained in index $I_j$ and the more important $I_j$); and $v_j$ is the weights for index $I_j$ by the improved CRITIC method. According to the improved CRITIC method, the final objective weight vector $\mathit{V}={\left[v_j\right]}_{1\times q}$ can be obtained.

3.1.4 Comprehensive Weight

According to the principle of Kullback relative entropy derived from probability measures and considering the consistency requirement of information contained in the subjective weight vector acquired from the G2 method, the objective weight vector obtained by the improved CRITIC method, and the real weight vector, this study establishes a comprehensive weight optimization model based on relative entropy and solves the comprehensive weight $w_j$ which has the best consistency with subjective and objective weight. The optimization model is

$\{\begin{array}{l}\min E\left(\lambda \right)={\displaystyle \sum _{\eta =u,v}{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^q{w}_j\ln \left(\frac{w_j}{{\eta }_j}\right)}}\hfill \\ \mathrm{s}\mathrm{.t}\mathrm{.}{\displaystyle \sum _{\eta =u,v}{\lambda }_{\eta }}=1,w_j={\displaystyle \sum _{\eta =u,v}{\lambda }_{\eta }{\eta }_j}\hfill \end{array}(13)$

In the formula, the decision variable is $\lambda =({\lambda }_u,{\lambda }_v)$, by minimizing the relative entropy, obtain the optimal solution ${\lambda }^{\ast }$, and then the comprehensive weight vector $\mathit{W}={\left[w_j\right]}_{1\times q}$ can be solved.

3.2 Decision Model

3.2.1 Double-Base Point Method

According to the obtained comprehensive weight vector and the standardized attribute decision-making matrix, the weighted decision-making matrix $\mathit{Y}={\left[y_{ij}\right]}_{p\times q}$ is calculated, where

$y_{ij}=w_j{c}_{ij}(14)$

By taking the optimal value and the worst value of each evaluation index as the double-base points, the optimal and the worst base point vectors are introduced. The optimal base point vector of the weighted decision-making matrix is ${\mathit{Y}}^{+}={\left[y_j^{+}\right]}_{1\times q}$, and the worst base point vector is ${\mathit{Y}}^{-}={\left[y_j^{-}\right]}_{1\times q}$. Among them, $y_j^{+}=\max \left\{y_{ij}\right\}$ and $y_j^{-}=\min \left\{y_{ij}\right\}$.

The optimal and the worst base point vectors are used as the reference standards of the optimal and the worst transformation objects, respectively. The closeness degree between the selected object and the optimal reference standard is calculated by the double-base point method. The smaller the closeness degree is, the closer the evaluation object is to the optimal transformation object. The closeness degree is

${\phi }_i=\frac{\left(Y^{+}-Y_i\right){\left(Y^{+}-Y^{-}\right)}^{\text{T}}}{{\Vert Y^{+}-Y^{-}\Vert }^2},i=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,p(15)$

The comprehensive evaluation value of the DC transformation object is

$f_i=\left(1-{\phi }_i\right)\times 100\%,i=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,p(16)$

The larger the comprehensive evaluation value is, the higher the planning investment benefit of the DC transformation of the evaluated object is. When formulating the planning scheme, the investment objects of the DC transformation should be selected according to the evaluation value from high to low.

3.2.2 Scheme Selection Model

By taking the maximum overall evaluation value of the scheme as the goal and the total annual investment and industry benchmark of economic indexes as the constraint, the final scheme is determined, namely,

$F=\max \left\{{\displaystyle \sum _{k=1}^K{f}_k|K=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,p}\right\}(17)$

In the formula, F is the objective function of the scheme selection model; K is the number of distribution networks selected for the DC transformation in turn; and $f_k$ is the comprehensive evaluation value of the evaluation object at the k of investment priority:

$\{\begin{array}{l}\text{s}\text{.t}\text{. }{I}_{14}^{\text{B}}\ge \min \left\{I_{14k}|k=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,K\right\}\hfill \\ \begin{array}{l}{I}_{13}^{\text{B}}\le \min \left\{I_{13k}|k=\mathrm{1,2},\cdot \cdot \cdot ,K\right\}\\ G\ge {\displaystyle \sum _{k=1}^K{I}_{12k}}\end{array}\hfill \end{array}(18)$

In this formula, $I_{12k}$, $I_{13k}$, and $I_{14k}$ are the investment cost, investment payback period, and internal rate of return of the DC transformation object k of the priority level, respectively. G is the total annual investment. $I_{13}^B$ and $I_{14}^B$ are the industry benchmark investment payback period and benchmark yield, respectively.

4 Example Analysis

Based on the above comprehensive decision-making method for the DC transformation of urban distribution network, seven 10 kV urban distribution networks in a southern province of China are selected and recorded as S₁∼S₇, respectively, to verify the feasibility of the proposed method.

The indexes of seven distribution networks are shown in Table 1. Due to the lack of data, indexes I₈, I₁₀, and I₁₁ (bold type) in Table 1 are transformed from qualitative value information to quantitative score by the Delphi-gold segmentation cloud generation method (Zhu et al., 2020; Han et al., 2020).

TABLE 1

TABLE 1. Index data of each distribution network.

4.1 Analysis of Evaluation Results

The comprehensive evaluation values of seven distribution networks are shown in Table 2. It can be seen that the comprehensive evaluation value of S₃ is the highest among the seven urban distribution networks (S₁∼S₇) to be DC retrofitted, which means the comprehensive benefit of S₃’s DC transformation is the best. When upgrading the urban distribution network, S₃ should be the preferred DC transformation object.

TABLE 2

TABLE 2. Comprehensive evaluation value of different objects.

In order to analyze the transformation demand and transformation economy of urban distribution network S₁∼S₇ in more detail, the radar chart for index evaluation of criteria level is analyzed by evaluating the indexes in the criterion layer, and the radar chart for index evaluation of criteria level is shown in Figure 3.

FIGURE 3

FIGURE 3. Radar chart for index evaluation of criteria level.

Further, as shown in Figure 3, the demands for the upgrade and transformation of S₁ in all the aspects are large and the transformation economical efficiency is also good. Table 2 shows that the comprehensive evaluation value is second only to S₃. Therefore, the DC transformation of S₁ is further carried out when the investment after S₃ is still sufficient.

Overall, considering the investment cost constraints, the project should prioritize the DC transformation of the distribution network with a larger comprehensive evaluation value.

4.2 Comparative Analysis of Evaluation Methods

In order to further illustrate the rationality of the comprehensive weight proposed by this study, the improved G2 method, the improved CRITIC method, the method proposed by Xie et al. (2010) (G2—entropy weight method), and the comprehensive method in this study are used to evaluate seven distribution networks comprehensively. The evaluation results are shown in Figure 4.

FIGURE 4

FIGURE 4. Comparison of comprehensive evaluation results.

Through the intuitive comparison in Figure 4, it can be seen that the differences in the evaluation results are mainly reflected in the distribution network S₂, S₄, S₅, and S₇. The evaluation results of the improved G2 method and improved CRITIC method are S₂>S₄>S₅>S₇ and S₇>S₅>S₂>S₄, respectively. This is mainly because the index weight of the improved G2 method is only determined subjectively by decision-makers, ignoring the objective information of the index. Similarly, the improved CRITIC method focuses on objective information and ignores the importance of expert opinions in decision-making, which will also lead to deviation in evaluation results. Although the evaluation results obtained by the method proposed by Xie et al. (2010) are consistent with those in this study, compared with Xie et al. (2010), the comprehensive method in this study introduces the analytical theory in the process of expert decision-making. In the process of handling objective information, the comparative strength, conflict degree, and discreteness of the index data are comprehensively considered. In summary, the evaluation results in this study will be more reasonable and accurate. In addition, the sensitivity of the evaluation results obtained by this method is 152.24%, which is also significantly better than 100.59% of the method proposed by Xie et al. (2010).

In summary, the evaluation results obtained by the method in this study are more reasonable, accurate, and with greater identification, which can be well applied to the optimization of DC transformation objects of urban distribution networks in this study.

4.3 Analysis of Decision Results

In order to illustrate the correctness of the comprehensive decision-making results in this study, the decision-making results under five selection principles are compared and analyzed. Principle A is the low average reliability of power supply; principle B is the low reliability of traditional power supply; principle C is the high demand for power supply quality improvement; principle D is the high demand for DC distribution network; and principle E is the comprehensive evaluation value of this study that is high. The comprehensive evaluation results under the five principles are shown in Table 3.

TABLE 3

TABLE 3. Evaluation results under five principles.

Assume that the total annual investment is 20 million yuan, the industry benchmark investment payback period is 16 years, and the benchmark yield is 8%. The investment priorities, selected distribution network, and total investment costs of the five principles are shown in Table 4. Because the investment payback period and internal rate of return of the seven distribution networks meet the financial and economic constraints, Table 4 only shows the total investment cost of the preferred object under investment cost constraints.

(1) Principle A takes the low average power supply reliability as the basis for the optimization of the transformation objects. As shown in Tables 3, 4, the preferred objects are S₇, S₆, and S₅. However, with the continuous improvement of users’ demand for uninterrupted power supply, the interruption frequency will become the main factor affecting users’ electricity experience at a high level of power supply reliability. Therefore, in principle B, the traditional power supply reliability is comprehensively reflected by two indicators: power supply reliability rate and system average interruption frequency. Although the optimization objects are still S₇, S₅, and S₆, the order of optimization has changed. This is mainly because the average interruption frequency of S₅ is 0.4669, which is significantly higher than the 0.4275 of S₆. The optimization of the transformation objects through method B has the significance of improving power supply reliability but does not consider the differentiated demand of distribution networks.

(2) Principle C is based on the improvement of power supply quality. According to Tables 3, 4, the selected objects are S₃, S₆, and S₄, which are different from principle B. This is mainly because principle C considers the different requirements of distribution networks for power supply quality. Table 1 shows that compared with S₇ and S₆, although S₃ and S₄ have higher power supply reliability, their gap with the target level is larger than that of S₇ and S₆. In addition, principle C also reflects the demand for the improvement of power availability of distribution networks through the voltage qualification rate. In general, the optimization of the transformation objects through principle C has the significance of improving the differentiated power supply quality level. However, the direct and indirect demand for the DC transformation of urban distribution networks is not considered.

(3) Although the principle D effectively considers the DC transformation demand of distribution networks, it abandons the demand for the improvement of power supply quality without considering the social benefit and the economical efficiency, which is not comprehensive enough. However, principle E considers the differentiated demand of distribution networks and fully considers the direct and indirect demand of DC transformation, which can effectively bring into play the comprehensive benefits of DC transformation. As shown in Tables 3, 4, the optimization objects and method D are the same as S₃, S₁, and S₆. This is because of the highest importance of the DC transformation demand of distribution networks under the indexes in the four-criterion layer, the large demand for upgrading and transformation in all aspects of S₃, S₁, and S₆, and the good economic efficiency of transformation. It can be analyzed in detail through the radar diagram in Figure 2, which is not repeated here.

TABLE 4

TABLE 4. Optimization results under five principles.

It can be seen that the comprehensive decision results in this study can effectively reflect the comprehensive benefits of DC transformation of urban distribution networks, which can guide the distribution network planning department to arrange the priority scheme of DC transformation objects reasonably.

5 Conclusion

Aiming at the problem that there is no quantitative decision-making method for DC transformation priority of multiple distribution networks in urban distribution network upgrading, this study carried out the following work:

(1) Starting from the demand and economy of urban distribution network upgrading and transformation, considering the differentiated demand for power supply quality of distribution network transformation, and taking the direct demand of DC transformation driven by the restrictive DC transformation of AC transformation and the indirect demand of DC transformation driven by social development as the starting point, a comprehensive evaluation index system for DC transformation objects is designed, which comprehensively considers the demand for power supply quality improvement, DC transformation demand of distribution networks, social benefit demand, and transformation economical efficiency.

(2) The G2 method is improved by introducing the principle of the analytic hierarchy process to determine the subjective weight of the index, which can comprehensively consider the fuzziness of expert experience and the risk state of expert individuals. At the same time, the improved CRITIC method is used to determine the objective weight, which can comprehensively consider the contrast strength, conflict degree, and discreteness between indicators so that the weight is objective and accurate. The comprehensive weight optimization model based on relative entropy is established to make the evaluation results more reasonable, accurate, and identifiable. The example shows that the sensitivity of evaluation results is increased by about 50%.

(3) Based on the double-base point method and scheme selection model, a comprehensive decision model for the DC transformation of the urban distribution network is established. The example shows that the model can comprehensively consider the power supply quality improvement demand, DC transformation demand, social benefit demand, and transformation economical efficiency demand; maximize the comprehensive benefits in many aspects; arrange investment priorities to form transformation schemes; and prioritize the transformation of urban distribution network with the optimal comprehensive benefits.

China is vigorously promoting distributed renewable energy, electric vehicles, and energy storage, including distributed the photovoltaic, distributed energy storage system, microgrid, and electric vehicle cluster. Among them, there are many demands for DC transformation of the existing AC distribution network and for fine planning considering electric vehicles, renewable energy, and energy storage on the basis of DC transformation.

In this paper, the comprehensive decision of the DC transformation object is preliminarily made. However, the concrete DC transformation scheme has not been discussed. Therefore, after selecting the DC transformation object, designing the refined DC transformation scheme, which needs to consider the global optimization/sub-optimization that meets the multi-objectives of reliability, economy, power quality, safety, and flexibility of the transformation distribution network, and considering the optimal allocation of distributed renewable energy in time and space, such electric vehicles and energy storage, is the next need for further research.

Data Availability Statement

The raw data supporting the conclusion of this article will be made available by the authors without undue reservation.

Author Contributions

YO proposed the technical ideas and key formula derivation of the full text and presided over the content of the example design. XX mainly provided great support for simulation calculation and verification of results. MY put forward many positive suggestions on the technical content of the manuscript. FW was responsible for writing this manuscript.

Funding

This study received funding from the science and technology project of China Southern Power Grid, project number GDKJXM20173253. The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article, or the decision to submit it for publication.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the planning center of Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd. for its financial and technical support. The discussion with the personnel of the organization enables the authors to understand the application demand and development trend of the distribution network in China.

Supplementary Material

The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.906047/full#supplementary-material

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