A stochastic unit commitment model for integrating renewable supply and demand response

Author

Papavasiliou, A. ; Oren, S.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Oper. Res., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

22-26 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We present a stochastic unit commitment model for assessing the reserve requirements resulting from the large-scale integration of renewable energy sources and deferrable demand in power systems. We present three alternative demand response paradigms for assessing the benefits of demand flexibility in absorbing the uncertainty and variability associated with renewable supply: centralized co-optimization of generation and demand by the system operator, demand bids and coupling renewable resources with deferrable loads. We present simulation results for a model of the Western Interconnection.

Keywords

demand side management; power generation dispatch; power generation scheduling; renewable energy sources; wind power plants; Western interconnection; centralized cooptimization; deferrable demand; deferrable loads; demand bids; demand flexibility; large-scale integration; power systems; renewable energy sources; renewable supply-demand response integration; reserve requirements; stochastic unit commitment model; system operator; Couplings; Economics; Load management; Load modeling; Real-time systems; Stochastic processes; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2727-5

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESGM.2012.6344858

Filename

6344858