Optimizing Spinning Reserve Requirement of Power System With Carbon Capture Plants

Author

Suhua Lou ; Siyu Lu ; Yaowu Wu ; Kirschen, Daniel S.

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Electromagn. Eng. & Technol., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

30

Issue

2

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

1056

Lastpage

1063

Abstract

Spinning reserve (SR) is one of the most important resources used by system operators to respond to unforeseen events. In a low-carbon economy mode, carbon capture plant is an important CO₂ abatement option and might constitute a significant proportion of the generation mix. Due to their potential flexibility, such plants might affect the requirement for SR. This paper describes a multi-period optimization model for coordinating the generation, carbon capture and SR provision. In turn, this model is used to optimize the SR requirements, with the objective of minimizing the overall cost. Since this objective function combines the generation production cost, the expected energy not supplied (EENS) cost, SR provision cost and the carbon emission cost, it is better suited to evaluate the SR requirements of power system with carbon capture plants. Numerical results based on a 26-unit test system show that the proposed model is effective and practical.

Keywords

air pollution control; carbon capture and storage; environmental economics; minimisation; pumped-storage power stations; CO₂ abatement; EENS cost; SR provision cost; carbon capture plant; cost minimization; expected energy not supplied cost; generation mix; generation production cost; low-carbon economy; multiperiod optimization model; power system spinning reserve requirement optimization; pumped-storage plant; unit test system; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Optimization; Power demand; Production; Solvents; CO$_{2}$ emission credit; Carbon capture plants (CCPs); low-carbon economy; multi-period optimization; spinning reserve;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2341691

Filename

6876223