Benchmarking a reduced test-bed model of WECC region for unit commitment and flexible dispatch

Author

Price, James E.

Author_Institution

California ISO, Folsom, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

California´s targets for renewable energy result in profound market changes as portfolios shift from natural gas to intermittent, often remote resources. New market products offer needed flexibility to respond to uncertainty in resource output. A 240-bus model provides a test system for the California ISO and WECC market, examining how load management and stochastic unit commitment can deal with uncertainty in demand and intermittent resource output. This model is compared to a full-scale model to validate its use.

Keywords

power generation dispatch; power generation economics; power generation scheduling; power markets; 240-bus model; California ISO; WECC market; WECC region; Western Electricity Coordinating Council; flexible dispatch; intermittent resource output; load management; reduced test-bed model; renewable energy; stochastic unit commitment; Analytical models; Generators; Load modeling; Planning; Real-time systems; Stochastic processes; Uncertainty; market model; power system economics; renewable energy; stochastic unit commitment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672481

Filename

6672481