Alternative Approaches to Calculate Benefits of an Energy Imbalance Market With Wind and Solar Energy [electronic resource] : Preprint

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.47 Solar-energy engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 1.3 MB : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 259150
• Chủ đề: 1. 17 wind energy; 2. Capacity; 3. Market; 4. Solar energy; 5. Wind power

Tóm tắt

The anticipated increase in variable generation in the Western Interconnection over the next several years has raised concerns about how to maintain system balance, especially in smaller Balancing Authority Areas (BAAs). Given renewable portfolio standards in the West, it is possible that more than 50 gigawatts of wind capacity will be installed by 2020. Significant quantities of solar generationare likely to be added as well. The consequent increase in variability and uncertainty that must be managed by the conventional generation fleet and responsive loads has resulted in a proposal for an Energy Imbalance Market (EIM). This paper extends prior work to estimate the reserve requirements for regulation, spinning, and non-spinning reserves with and without the EIM. We also discussalternative approaches to allocating reserve requirements and show that some apparently attractive allocation methods have undesired consequences.