Analysis Methodology for Balancing Authority Cooperation in High Penetration of Variable Generation

Makarov, Yuri V. ; Etingov, Pavel V. ; Zhou, Ning ; Ma, Jian ; Samaan, Nader A. ; Diao, Ruisheng ; Malhara, Sunita V. ; Guttromson, Ross T. ; Du, Pengwei ; Sastry, Chellury

关键词: CAPACITY;    ECONOMICS;    EFFICIENCY;    IMPLEMENTATION;    METRICS;    POWER SYSTEMS;    RECOMMENDATIONS;    REGULATIONS;    RELIABILITY;   

DOI  :  10.2172/974955
RP-ID  :  PNNL-19229
PID  :  OSTI ID: 974955
Others  :  Other: EB2502010
Others  :  TRN: US201008%%583

学科分类：电力

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

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 means various forms of collaboration between individual BAs must 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 ACE diversity interchange (ADI), wind only BA, BA consolidation, dynamic scheduling, regulation and load following sharing, extreme event impact study are discussed in this report. The objective of such strategies is to allow individual BAs within a large power grid to help each other deal 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 performances of different virtual BA strategies. The report builds a systematic framework for evaluating BA consolidation and coordination. Results for case studies show that significant economic and reliability benefits can be gained. The merits and limitation of each virtual BA strategy are investigated. The report provides guidelines for the power industry to evaluate the coordination or consolidation method. The application of the developed strategies in cooperation with several regional BAs is in progress for several off-spring projects.