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Effects of Distribution System Characteristics on TSO-DSO Ancillary Services Exchange

Publications - Paper

Effects of Distribution System Characteristics on TSO-DSO Ancillary Services Exchange

The paper presents a possible methodology for calculating the total resource flexibility of a distribution network by defining an equivalent capability curve, which depends on the operational limits of each controllable resource and the distribution network.

Distribution resources are becoming increasingly attractive to ancillary service markets, especially as their continued increase means they are gradually replacing the flexibility of conventional power plants. The use of their flexibility by the transmission system can be significantly affected by the characteristics of the distribution network (impedance, voltage/current constraints, etc.). For this reason, flexible resources must be aggregated taking into account the constraints of the distribution network. One possible way of aggregating distributed flexibility is to define an equivalent capability curve (representing the maximum amount of active/reactive power that can be delivered to the transmission grid), the shape of which depends on the operational limitations of each controllable power resource and the specific distribution network.

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