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Balancing Authority Cooperation Concepts to Reduce Variable Generation Integration Costs in the Western Interconnection: Intra-Hour Scheduling

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1073496· OSTI ID:1073496
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  1. Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), Salt Lake City, UT (United States); Western Electricity Coordinating Council
  2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  3. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  4. Energy Exemplar LLC., Adelaide, SA (Australia)
The overall objective of this study was to understand, on an Interconnection-wide basis, the effects intra-hour scheduling compared to hourly scheduling. Moreover, the study sought to understand how the benefits of intra-hour scheduling would change by altering the input assumptions in different scenarios. This report describes results of three separate scenarios with differing key assumptions and comparing the production costs between hourly scheduling and 10-minute scheduling performance. The different scenarios were chosen to provide insight into how the estimated benefits might change by altering input assumptions. Several key assumptions were different in the three scenarios, however most assumptions were similar and/or unchanged among the scenarios.
Research Organization:
Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
EE0001376
OSTI ID:
1073496
Report Number(s):
EE0001376-01
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English