12th IEEE PowerTech Conference - PowerTech 2017, Manchester (United Kingdom). 18-22 June 2017
Summary:
This paper presents a mixed-integer model for the hourly energy and reserve scheduling of a price-taker and closed-loop pumped-storage hydropower plant operating in hydraulic short-circuit mode. The plant participates in the spot market and in the secondary regulation reserve market, taking into account the regulation energy due to the real-time use of the regulation-up and -down reserves. The proposed model is used to compare the maximum theoretical income of the plant with and without considering hydraulic short-circuit operation. Numerical results demonstrate that the operation in hydraulic short-circuit mode could help significantly to enlarge the income of the power plant and that the secondary regulation reserve market might be the main source of revenue in a realistic setting characterized by a high level of renewable energy sources in the generation mix.
Keywords: Hydraulic short-circuit technology, pumped storage plant, secondary regulation service.
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1109/PTC.2017.7980869
Published in 2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech, pp: 1-1, ISBN: 978-1-5090-4238-8
Publication date: 2017-06-18.
Citation:
M. Chazarra, J.I. Pérez-Díaz, J. García-González, Optimal energy and reserve scheduling of pumped-storage power plants considering hydraulic short-circuit operation, 12th IEEE PowerTech Conference - PowerTech 2017, Manchester (United Kingdom). 18-22 June 2017. In: 2017 IEEE Manchester PowerTech: Conference proceedings, ISBN: 978-1-5090-4238-8
