There has been a significant growth of variable renewable generation in the power grid today. However, the industry still uses deterministic optimization to model and solve the optimal power flow (OPF) problem for real-time generation dispatch that ignores the uncertainty associated with intermittent renewable power. Thus, it is necessary to study stochastic OPF (SOPF) that can better handle uncertainty since SOPF is able to consider the probabilistic forecasting information of intermittent renewables. Transmission network congestion is one of the main reasons for renewable energy curtailment. Prior efforts in the literature show that utilizing transmission network reconfiguration can relieve congestion and resolve congestioninduced issues. This paper enhances SOPF by incorporating network reconfiguration into the dispatch model. Numerical simulations show that renewable curtailment can be avoided with the proposed network reconfiguration scheme that relieves transmission congestion in post-contingency situations. It is also shown that network reconfiguration can substantially reduce congestion cost, especially the contingency-case congestion cost.
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