An Evaluation of Electricity Net Load Profiles and the Baseload Generation Concept
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., London (United Kingdom)
- KeyLogic Systems, LLC, Morgantown, WV (United States)
This paper investigates the amount of baseload generation that would be displaced due to renewable resources being implemented to meet state renewable portfolio standards (RPS) in the following regions: the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO), the PJM regional transmission organization (RTO), the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and the California ISO (CAISO). Modeling of these regions was done in Promod, a security constrained economic dispatch (SCED) model, for the years 2016-2030, to compare scenarios with and without the two primary intermittent renewable resources (solar and wind) attributable to the RPS regulations implemented in each state. In addition, a new statistical approach was developed for evaluating the variability in net load shapes caused by these two intermittent resources. The load variability index (LVI) was developed to apply to the hourly net load profiles for each day as a means of comparing variability in net loads.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FE0025912
- OSTI ID:
- 1617671
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL--2018/1899
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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