Due to the rapid development of renewable energy (RE), the power transmission and transformation equipment of some renewable energy gathering stations are congested especially at noon. Therefore, an operation. Due to the large fluctuations of renewable energy (RE) output, the peak–valley difference of n. 2.1. Objective functionThe objective is to minimize the economic operation cost of the system, including the operation cost of thermal power units, hydro and RE cu. To compare the economic efficiency of different schemes and their effects on promoting RE utilization, alleviating line congestion, and improving line utilization, this paper propos. 4.1. Case introduction and resultsIn this paper, ROTS system is used to verify the correctness of the proposed model. The power structure is shown in Fig. 1, where the inst. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.