A Metric and Market Construct of Inter-Temporal Flexibility in Time-Coupled Economic Dispatch

The increasing penetration of variable and uncertain generation from renewable resources poses a challenge for balancing the power system supply and demand. Violations of this constraint seriously impact system reliability and thus carry with them a very high cost. In order to address the issues created by variable generation increased system flexibility is required. System operators are considering modifications to the conventional real-time economic dispatch model to provide improved ramp flexibility. In this paper an operational flexibility metric called lack of ramp probability (LORP) is proposed for the real-time economic dispatch. Further, a two-step robust optimization based framework is introduced to simultaneously guarantee LORP flexibility metric and ensure ramp deliverability in a multi-zonal setting. The proposed framework is illustrated on a 3-zone modified IEEE 73 bus (RTS-96) test system.

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