Title :
Demand response in the New Zealand Electricity market
Author :
Chakrabarti, Bhujanga ; Bullen, David ; Edwards, Conrad ; Callaghan, Chris
Author_Institution :
Syst. Oper. Group, Transpower New Zealand Ltd., New Zealand
Abstract :
This paper examines a proposal for the introduction of incentive based demand curtailment in the New Zealand Electricity market (NZEM). Today NZEM participants do not submit demand bids (except in pre-dispatch schedule) to the markets for energy and regulation reserve. Professional literature identifies demand response (DR) in a broad variety of uses. Such uses range across peak load management, transmission congestion management, regulating reserve, market efficiency, transmission and distribution investment deferral, among other things. Despite the apparent benefits of these various options demand side participation has been very limited in today´s markets throughout the world. Many US and Canadian markets have embraced demand response, but many markets are still reluctant to implement demand management products in real time markets. The New Zealand power system has a limited Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and a low penetration of smart appliances. In the installed AMI much of the communication capability is limited to remote meter reading. Consequent perhaps on the limited TOU capability of the AMI, tariffs are fixed rather than TOU based. Some adhoc incentives have been given to persuade consumers to participate in conservation initiatives during periods of energy shortage. At the time of writing New Zealand does not use price based demand response methods. Our discussion is centered on a generic incentive based demand response. This paper reviews the status of the various DR implementations in the United States Independent System Operators (ISO´s) as a basis of comparison for the NZEM. The paper investigates the effect of introducing incentive based demand side participation in the NZEM. Demand participation in the form of dispatchable energy bids are considered with the objective of investigating the LMP formulation changes necessary to accommodate DR in the energy, contingency and regulating reserve markets in the NZEM.
Keywords :
demand side management; incentive schemes; metering; power markets; power system economics; power system measurement; pricing; tariffs; AMI; Canadian markets; ISO; LMP formulation; NZEM; New Zealand electricity market; New Zealand power system; US markets; United States Independent System Operators; advance metering infrastructure; demand management products; demand side management participation; dispatchable energy bids; distribution investment deferral; energy markets; energy regulation reserve; generic incentive based demand response; incentive based demand curtailment; peak load management; price based demand response methods; real time markets; remote meter reading; reserve market regulation; smart appliances; tariffs; transmission congestion management; transmission investment deferral; Economics; Generators; Investments; Load management; Optimization; Real time systems; Reliability; AMI; Demand response; Electricity market; Incentive based demand response; LMP; Optimisation; Regulation; TOU; VOLL;
Conference_Titel :
Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D), 2012 IEEE PES
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1934-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2160-8555
DOI :
10.1109/TDC.2012.6281718