Economic grid support from variable renewables

Frans Van Hulle, Florian Chapalain, Nicolaos Cutululis, Hannele Holttinen, Juha Kiviluoma, Luis Mariano Faeilla, Ivan Pineda, Manoël Rekinger

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Abstract

Grid support in the form of ancillary services will need to be supplied to an increasing extent by variable renewables, as these are replacing non-variable conventional generation. Opportunities and boundary conditions for cost-efficient provision are determined by many factors, including technology as well as operational and economical aspects that depend on energy market design. Wind and solar PV energy include a broad range of power plants, from small distributed PV to large concentrated offshore wind farm clusters. There are specific issues for transmission and distribution systems, and also how to coordinate system service provision from distribution systems to transmission system. The paper summarizes the assessment of the above issues within the EU project REserviceS, finalised in September 2014. It also presents REserviceS recommendations for enabling market mechanisms for provision of grid support services in European power systems.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication13th Wind Integration Workshop proceedings
PublisherEnergynautics GmbH
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print) 978-3-98-13870-9-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
MoE publication typeB3 Non-refereed article in conference proceedings
Event13th International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems as well as on Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Farms, WIW 2014 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 11 Nov 201413 Nov 2014

Conference

Conference13th International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems as well as on Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Farms, WIW 2014
Abbreviated titleWIW 2014
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period11/11/1413/11/14

Keywords

  • ancillary (grid support) services
  • transmission systems
  • distribution systems
  • grid codes
  • market design

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