The simulation of risk-based adequacy control for the smart grid

The large-scale integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) generation, such as wind and solar power, is very helpful for reducing emissions of green-house gases. However, this is at the cost of demanding more reserve capacity of different response time, especially that of the spinning reserve, due to various kinds of uncertainty introduced by the energy sources. A brief introduction of the essential factors relevant to the adequacy control and the used dynamic simulation models is given firstly. Based on the models, the comparison between the risk-based control method and an existing method is made to show the importance of risk quantification to the adequacy analysis and control.