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Ancillary Services in a pool-based competitive market: Conference on innovative approaches to electricity pricing

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:254463
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  1. Southern California Edison, LaJolla, CA (United States)

(1) Most ancillary services needed for real-time control of the transmission grid and to meet operating criteria can be competitively supplied and competitively procured. (2) The independent service operator (ISO) must directly control the generators and loads, which supply ancillary services. (3) Comparability of access to ancillary services is achievable through the ISO-based competitive market structure.

Research Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
OSTI ID:
254463
Report Number(s):
EPRI-TR--106232; CONF-960330--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English