Browsing by Author "Balzer, Kristian"

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    Economic Model of Ancillary Services in Real Time for Frequency Control
    (2023) Balzer, Kristian; Lazo, Joaquin; Watts, David
    Modern power systems integrate ancillary services (ASs) to provide security and quality of service in real-time operation (RTO) due to the intense frequency variations caused by the uncertainty of solar-wind generation. To this end, the ancillary services market focuses on power reserves for secondary and tertiary frequency control. The adjustment and dispatch of reserves from plants are manual instructions executed by the system operator in order to maintain the frequency within the normal operating range (49.80 & LE; f & LE; 50.20 Hz). This work proposes a methodology for the economic modeling of the ancillary services market in real time using a dynamic hourly mathematical model that integrates the variability of solar-wind generation, a demand monitoring curve, and the trajectory of marginal cost (MgC). This is a segmented methodology in which plants with costs close to the marginal cost are identified in real time using the Supramarginal (SMg) and Inframarginal (IMg) methods. Finally, this economic model for real-time power reserve reallocation represents an innovation in the ancillary services market because its results allow for the operation costs (OC) of the reserves to be reduced by up to 60% and for the displacement of marginal costs to be reduced by 10 to 40% with respect to traditional methodologies such as the economic merit list and the technical minimum methodology, which cause plants to operate without economic justification.
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    Redispatch Model for Real-Time Operation with High Solar-Wind Penetration and Its Adaptation to the Ancillary Services Market
    (2024) Balzer, Kristian; Watts, David
    Modern electrical power systems integrate renewable generation, with solar generation being one of the pioneers worldwide. In Latin America, the greatest potential and development of solar generation is found in Chile through the National Electric System. However, its energy matrix faces a crisis of drought and reduction of emissions that limits hydroelectric generation and involves the definitive withdrawal of coal generation. The dispatch of these plants is carried out by the system operator, who uses a simplified mechanism, called "economic merit list" and which does not reflect the real costs of the plants to the damage of the operating and marginal cost of the system. This inefficient dispatch scheme fails to optimize the availability of stored gas and its use over time. Therefore, a real-time redispatch model is proposed that minimizes the operation cost function of the power plants, integrating the variable generation cost as a polynomial function of the net specific fuel consumption, adding gas volume stock restrictions and water reservoirs. In addition, the redispatch model uses an innovative "maximum dispatch power" restriction, which depends on the demand associated with the automatic load disconnection scheme due to low frequency. Finally, by testing real simulation cases, the redispatch model manages to optimize the operation and dispatch costs of power plants, allowing the technical barriers of the market to be broken down with the aim of integrating ancillary services in the short term, using the power reserves in primary (PFC), secondary (SCF), and tertiary (TCF) frequency control.