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Overprocurement of balancing capacity may increase the welfare in the cross-zonal energy-reserve coallocation problem

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  • D'avid Csercsik
  • 'Ad'am Sleisz

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When the traded energy and reserve products between zones are co-allocated to optimize the infrastructure usage, both deterministic and stochastic flows have to be accounted for on interconnector lines. We focus on allocation models, which guarantee deliverability in the context of the portfolio bidding European day-ahead market framework, assuming a flow-based description of network constraints. In such models, as each unit of allocated reserve supply implies additional cost, it is straightforward to assume that the amount of allocated reserve is equal to the accepted reserve demand quantity. However, as it is illustrated by the proposed work, overprocurement of reserves may imply counterintuitive benefits. Reserve supplies not used for balancing may be used for congestion management, thus allowing valuable additional flows in the network.

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  • D'avid Csercsik & 'Ad'am Sleisz, 2025. "Overprocurement of balancing capacity may increase the welfare in the cross-zonal energy-reserve coallocation problem," Papers 2511.01877, arXiv.org.
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