AUTHOR=Long Zhuhua , Zhang Shiqiang , He Wenfeng TITLE=Security Region of Integrated Heat and Electricity System Considering Thermal Dynamics JOURNAL=Frontiers in Energy Research VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/energy-research/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.945231 DOI=10.3389/fenrg.2022.945231 ISSN=2296-598X ABSTRACT=The broad development of integrated heat and electricity systems (IHES) has improved the energy utilization efficiency, but also increased the risk of cascaded accidents and the difficulty of operation. The security region that defines the permitted operation range is efficient for the planning and control of IHESs, while the accurate formulation of security region boundary renders its applications. To address this problem, this paper firstly proposes a novel equivalent thermal model (ETM) to build the direct connection between the operations states and the control variables in the heating system. The ETM directly characterizes the network response to the inputs and accurately describes the dynamic process in the heat system. On this basis, the method to construct the security region for IHES are presented considering the thermal dynamics, where the critical boundary is formulated with a set of accurate hyperplanes. Numerical simulations from different aspects verify the effectiveness of the ETM to describe the thermal dynamics. The results of security region indicate that the thermal dynamics influence the operation security and renewable penetration in the power system significantly.