Estimating Energy Market Schedules using Historical Price Data

Conference · 30 July 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85159-6.50086-5· OSTI ID:1888775

Cortes, Nicole; Gao, Xian; Knueven, Bernard; Dowling, Alexander W.

The global climate crisis is expected to reshape the energy generation landscape in the coming decades. Increasing integration of non-dispatchable renewable energy resources into energy infrastructures and markets creates uncertainty as well as new opportunities for flexible energy systems. To conduct proper economic evaluation of flexible energy systems, such as integrated energy systems (IES), advancements in modelling of market interactions, such as bidding, is crucial. This work presents a shortcut algorithm which uses two mixed integer linear programs to compute dispatch schedules (e.g., hourly power production targets) that are constrained by the resource's bid information and characteristics (e.g., minimum up and down times) based on historical locational marginal price (LMP) data. The proposed algorithm is approximately 100 times faster and uses orders of magnitude less data than a full production cost model (PCM). We find the shortcut simulator recapitulates generator dispatch signals for the Prescient PCM with approximately 4% error for the RTS-GMLC test system.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1888775
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-2C00-84055; MainId:84828; UUID:f0d0b9bd-adc6-40d0-ae94-fc18bc3de421; MainAdminID:67526
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
electricity generation
energy markets
integrated energy systems
multiscale simulation