Analyzing of Balancing Authorities Cooperation Methods with High Variable Generation Penetration

Conference · Tue Nov 02 04:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:992817

Makarov, Yuri V; Zhou, Ning; Etingov, Pavel V; Samaan, Nader A; Ma, Jian; Diao, Ruisheng; Guttromson, Ross T

With the rapidly growing penetration level of wind and solar generation, the challenges of managing variability and the uncertainty of intermittent renewable generation become more and more significant. The problem of power variability and uncertainty gets exacerbated when each balancing authority (BA) works locally and separately to balance its own subsystem. The virtual BA concept is based on various forms of collaboration between individual BAs to manage power variability and uncertainty. The virtual BA will have a wide area control capability in managing its operational balancing requirements in different time frames. This coordination results in the improvement of efficiency and reliability of power system operation while facilitating the high level integration of green, intermittent energy resources. Several strategies for virtual BA implementation, such as Area Control Error (ACE) diversity interchange (ADI), variable generation only BA, BA consolidation, dynamic scheduling, and regulation and load following sharing are discussed in this paper. The objective of such strategies is to allow individual BAs within a large power grid to help each other dealing with power variability. Innovative methods have been developed to simulate the balancing operation of BAs. These methods evaluate the BA operation through a number of metrics such as capacity, ramp rate, ramp duration, energy and cycling requirements to evaluate the performance of different virtual BA strategies.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 992817
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-74593; EB2502010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

17 WIND ENERGY
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
Area Control Error (ACE)
ACE Diversity Interchange (ADI)
Regulation Sharing
Load Following Sharing
BA Consolidation
Dynamic Scheduling
variable generation-only BA.
CAPACITY
EFFICIENCY
IMPLEMENTATION
METRICS
PERFORMANCE
POWER SYSTEMS
REGULATIONS
RELIABILITY
WIND POWER
WIND POWER PLANTS