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Resource adequacy risks to the bulk power system in North America

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  • Murphy, Sinnott
  • Apt, Jay
  • Moura, John
  • Sowell, Fallaw

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To keep the electric power system reliable, grid operators procure reserve generation capacity to protect against generator failures and significant deviation from the load forecast. Current methods for determining reserve requirements use historical generator availability data (recorded as failure events) to compute the fraction of the time each unit in the power system was unavailable unexpectedly. These values are then combined using analytical or simulation methods to yield a distribution of available capacity. From this distribution, the reserve capacity needed to maintain a particular reliability target may be determined. Such an approach implicitly assumes that generator failures occur independently of one another and that generator availability is not seasonal.

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  • Murphy, Sinnott & Apt, Jay & Moura, John & Sowell, Fallaw, 2018. "Resource adequacy risks to the bulk power system in North America," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 1360-1376.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:212:y:2018:i:c:p:1360-1376
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.12.097
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