BC3-UPV/EHU Seminars: Large Scale Integration of Renewables in Power Systems: Flexibility Assessment and Market Rules Design

BC3-UPV/EHU Seminars
“Large Scale Integration of Renewables in Power Systems: Flexibility Assessment and Market Rules Design.“

Fernando de Sisternes
PhD Candidate, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Abstract

Large scale deployment of renewable electricity generation is gradually changing the operational regime of the existing electricity generation portfolio to make generation meet demand instantaneously. Additionally, increasing shares of renewables will require the deployment of new elements in the power system (storage, interconnections, etc) that help balance the intrinsic variability of these variable energy resources (VERs).
This presentation will focus on the mid-term challenges of a large integration of VERs in power systems. It will give an overview of the main impacts of VERs on thermal generators and describe a modeling approach capable of assessing the performance of various market rules aimed at mitigating these effects.