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Support Planning reserves #44

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staadecker opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 1 comment
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Support Planning reserves #44

staadecker opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 1 comment
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Here's a summary of discussion on the planning reserves module for reference. We've decided to put work on this on hold for now.

Current state

  • Currently storage technologies can't contribute to planning reserves.
  • Currently all other technologies (incl. non-renewable) can contribute to planning reserves.

Issues

  • Storage is expected to be an important source of reserves in zero-emission scenarios.
  • In zero-emission scenarios, it doesn't make sense to have thermal plants as reserves.

Potential solutions

  • Allow different scenarios to specify which types of energy sources are allowed (e.g. one scenario allows only renewable).
  • Allow storage to contribute to planning reserves, this requires reformulating the model to consider state of charge of storage technologies. Pedro mentioned a 4-hour rule where storage technologies need to have enough storage for 4 hours to be considered as contributing to reserves (or something like that?).
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Update

Another thing I just noticed is that hydro is currently always credited its entire rated capacity for reserves (even if we can't dispatch nearly as much due to the average hydro flow constraint). @pesap @jszinai @PatyHidalgo

One solution is to rewrite the average hydro flow constraint to constrain a variable which is a maximum dispatch value and then to use that variable in the reserves module.

@staadecker staadecker changed the title Planning reserves Support Planning reserves Sep 13, 2021
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