Impact of balancing energy on network congestions

Author

Sprey, J.D. ; Drees, T. ; vom Stein, D. ; Moser, A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Power Syst. & Power Econ., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The increasing share of power generation by renewable energy sources goes along with higher gradients as well as volatilities in feed-in and has sustained effects on the system balance. The transmission system operators use balancing reserves to compensate these imbalances. The pan-European provision of balancing reserves will have impacts on congestions in the transmission grid in future generation systems. This paper presents a method for simulation of activation of reserves and the induced impact on network congestions in the European transmission grid.

Keywords

electric power generation; power grids; power transmission; European transmission grid; balancing energy; balancing reserves; network congestions; pan-European provision; power generation; renewable energy sources; transmission system operators; Europe; Load flow; Load modeling; Optimization; Power generation; Resource management; Wind forecasting; Balancing Energy; Cross-Zonal Reserves; International Grid Control Cooperation; Load-Frequency-Control; Network Congestions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

European Energy Market (EEM), 2015 12th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EEM.2015.7216692

Filename

7216692