Flexible Voyage Scheduling and Coordinated Energy Management Strategy of All-Electric Ships and Seaport Microgrid

Maritime transportation takes a major responsibility in public travel between islands while producing a large quantity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. All-electric ships (AESs) can be applied to mitigate GHG emissions through energy storage systems (ESS), renewable integration, and cold ironing. In this paper, we propose a flexible voyage scheduling strategy for AESs based on the temporal-spatial dynamics (TSD) to satisfy the transportation demand while mitigating the burden of the AESs on the power grids during charging. The interaction between the AESs and island-based microgrids is modeled. Furthermore, the AESs are utilized to enhance the resilience of the power grids. The AESs can be dispatched to realize the load restoration under contingencies. The proposed methodology is verified on a three-island system. It can be concluded that under normal operation, the proposed voyage scheduling can reduce the total energy consumption cost of the AESs and the islands. Besides, the voltage violation can be improved. Under the emergency, the proposed method can help the grids restore more critical and normal loads.