Journal
ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 104-117Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2016.07.020
Keywords
Mean-risk electricity generation investment; Generation technologies portfolios; Frequency response and reserves; Power system economics; Power system security
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Funding
- Conicyt (Fondecyt) [1141082, 11140628]
- Conicyt (PCHA/Magister Nacional) [2013-221320002]
- Conicyt (Fondecyt/Iniciacion) [11130612]
- Conicyt (Fondef) [15110592]
- Conicyt (Fondap) [15110019]
- Conicyt (Newton-Picarte) [MR/N026721/1]
- Institute for Research in Market Imperfections and Public Policy [IS130002]
- Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ICM) [P-05-004-F]
- Complex Engineering Systems Institute (Conicyt) [FBO16]
- Asociacion Gremial de Generadoras Electricas de Chile
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K002252/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K002252/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Integration of renewable generation can lead, to both diversification of energy sources (which can improve the overall economic performance of the power sector) and cost increase due to the need for further resources to provide flexibility and thus secure operation from unpredictable, variable and asynchronous generation. In this context, we propose a cost-risk model that can properly plan generation and determine efficient technology portfolios through balancing the benefits of energy source diversification and cost of security of supply through the provision of various generation frequency control and demand side services, including preservation of system inertia levels. We do so through a scenario-based cost minimization framework where the conditional value at risk (CVaR), associated with costs under extreme scenarios of fossil fuel prices combined with hydrological inflows, is constrained. The model can tackle problems with large data sets (e.g. 8760 hours and 1000 scenarios) since we use linear programming and propose a Benders-based method adapted to deal with CVaR constraints in the master problem. Through several analyses, including the Chilean main electricity system, we demonstrate the effects of renewables on hedging both fossil fuel and hydrological risks; effects of security of supply on costs, risks and renewable investment; and the importance of demand side services in limiting risk exposure of generation portfolios through-encouraging risk mitigating renewable generation investment. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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