An Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers Based Distributed Planning Model for Natural Gas Network, Electricity Network and Regional Integrated Energy Systems

Existing natural gas network and electricity networks expansion planning, regional integrated energy systems siting planning, interior equipment’s type and capacity planning are urgent problems in practical industrial establishments.

This paper proposed a joint planning model to address above problems firstly; however, joint planning model misleads the ownerships of three agents which investment decisions are generally made by different investors. Furthermore, the joint planning model is decomposed into three planning sub-problems related to corresponding stakeholders, and the alternating direction method of multipliers is adopted to solve the tripartite distributed planning problem.