Spinning Reserve from Responsive Load

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2009

OSTI ID:962615

Kueck, John D ^[1]; Kirby, Brendan J ^[1]; Laughner, T ^[2]; Morris, K ^[2]

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1. ORNL
2. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

As power system costs rise and capacity is strained demand response can provide a significant system reliability benefit at a potentially attractive cost. The 162 room Music Road Hotel in Pigeon Forge Tennessee agreed to host a spinning reserve test. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) supplied real-time metering and monitoring expertise to record total hotel load during both normal operations and testing. Preliminary testing showed that hotel load can be curtailed by 22% to 37% depending on the outdoor temperature and the time of day. The load drop was very rapid, essentially as fast as the 2 second metering could detect.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: OE USDOE - Office of Electric Transmission and Distribution
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 962615
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, Calgary, Canada, 20080726, 20080730
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
CAPACITY
HOTELS
METERING
MONITORING
POWER SYSTEMS
RELIABILITY
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
TESTING