Title :
Benchmarking a reduced test-bed model of WECC region for unit commitment and flexible dispatch
Author_Institution :
California ISO, Folsom, CA, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
DOI :
10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672481
