Bi-Level Game Optimal Operation of Integrated Energy System Considering Carbon Trading and Green Certificates Uncertainty

GONG Yongguo, ZENG Linjun, CHEN Jian, YAN Qin, LI Yuhao, XU Jiani

Electric Power Construction ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (12) : 119-130.

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Electric Power Construction ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (12) : 119-130. DOI: 10.12204/j.issn.1000-7229.2025.12.011

Bi-Level Game Optimal Operation of Integrated Energy System Considering Carbon Trading and Green Certificates Uncertainty

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[Objective] Integrated energy systems (IESs) face multiple challenges in carbon and green certificate trading markets. Existing scheduling models have difficulty in balancing the dynamics of economic returns with low-carbon objectives and lack effective quantification methods for unstructured uncertainty. An optimal scheduling strategy for IES intervals that takes into account the uncertainties of green certificates and carbon trading is proposed,and a master-slave game mechanism is combined to coordinate conflicts of interest with multiple actors to enhance economic outcomes and minimize the overall carbon footprint of the system. [Methods] First,a quantitative model of uncertainty in carbon trading and green certificate markets is constructed based on interval mathematics to characterize the range of fluctuation of green certificate trades and carbon emissions in terms of the number of intervals to avoid relying on a probability distribution. Second,a master-slave game framework is established for an IES operator and an energy supplier,and a two-layer interval optimization model is designed. The upper layer dynamically optimizes an energy pricing strategy to maximize the revenue of the IES operator,and the lower layer optimizes the unit output to maximize the revenue of the energy supplier. Furthermore,the particle swarm algorithm was applied to nest the CPLEX solver to efficiently search for an equilibrium solution to the game. The performance of the model was verified through a multi-scenario comparative analysis. [Results] Simulation results show that the proposed two-layer interval optimization model increased the revenue of the integrated energy system operator and energy supplier by 2.3 % and 5.1 %,respectively,and reduced the cost of carbon emissions by 12.7 %. Narrow interval optimization combined with the dynamic pricing strategy significantly mitigated the impact of fluctuations in green certificates and carbon trading on the system,which verifies the model's economic efficacy and synergistic capability to optimize for minimal carbon consumption. [Conclusions] By integrating interval optimization and the master-slave game,the proposed model balances the conflicting interests of IESs effectively and improves the low-carbon economics of the system by taking the uncertainty of carbon trading and green certificate markets into consideration.

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green certificate trading / carbon emission trading / integrated energy system(IES) / interval optimization / master- slave game / uncertainty

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GONG Yongguo , ZENG Linjun , CHEN Jian , et al . Bi-Level Game Optimal Operation of Integrated Energy System Considering Carbon Trading and Green Certificates Uncertainty[J]. Electric Power Construction. 2025, 46(12): 119-130 https://doi.org/10.12204/j.issn.1000-7229.2025.12.011

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