A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility Indices

Power system flexibility is the ability of power system to cope with the uncertainty and variability of generation and load sides. This ability should be quantified and measured by a suitable index to show the level of system flexibility in different situations. Flexibility area index, proposed by t...

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Main Authors: Homayoun Berahmandpour, Shahram Kuhsari, Hassan Rastegar
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Published: Amirkabir University of Technology 2021-06-01
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Online Access:https://eej.aut.ac.ir/article_4133_c2d3bbd8286bccdd299b3007c3439d07.pdf
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description Power system flexibility is the ability of power system to cope with the uncertainty and variability of generation and load sides. This ability should be quantified and measured by a suitable index to show the level of system flexibility in different situations. Flexibility area index, proposed by the authors, is a suitable metric for power system flexibility evaluation, especially in the presence of renewable sources as large scale wind and solar farms. Similar to other system flexibility indices, this index is defined first for one generation unit and then, extended to the power system by combination of the unit indices. In this way, an accurate and meaningful combination routine should be established to reflect the effect of each unit flexibility index correctly in the combined system flexibility index. This paper proposes a suitable and justified method to combine the unit flexibility indices, achieving the system flexibility index. The performance of the proposed index is verified by the wind/load curtailment in economic load dispatch incorporated wind power. Achieving this purpose, the mentioned index is decomposed into two components, one for ramp up and maximum generation system capabilities (upper component) and another for ramp down and minimum generation system capabilities (lower component), each related to the load or wind curtailment respectively which is another contribution of this paper. Finally, by establishment of a correlation between upper/lower component and load/wind curtailment, a suitable validity evaluation for the proposed system flexibility index is performed, which is another contribution of this paper.
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spelling doaj-art-e31fdbba73d948498c8dff3997bfd0d02025-08-20T02:34:56ZengAmirkabir University of TechnologyAUT Journal of Electrical Engineering2588-29102588-29292021-06-01531274010.22060/eej.2020.18574.53584133A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility IndicesHomayoun Berahmandpour0Shahram Kuhsari1Hassan Rastegar2Electrical engineering department, Amir kabir university, Tehran, IranDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University, Tehran, IranAmirkabir University of TechnologyPower system flexibility is the ability of power system to cope with the uncertainty and variability of generation and load sides. This ability should be quantified and measured by a suitable index to show the level of system flexibility in different situations. Flexibility area index, proposed by the authors, is a suitable metric for power system flexibility evaluation, especially in the presence of renewable sources as large scale wind and solar farms. Similar to other system flexibility indices, this index is defined first for one generation unit and then, extended to the power system by combination of the unit indices. In this way, an accurate and meaningful combination routine should be established to reflect the effect of each unit flexibility index correctly in the combined system flexibility index. This paper proposes a suitable and justified method to combine the unit flexibility indices, achieving the system flexibility index. The performance of the proposed index is verified by the wind/load curtailment in economic load dispatch incorporated wind power. Achieving this purpose, the mentioned index is decomposed into two components, one for ramp up and maximum generation system capabilities (upper component) and another for ramp down and minimum generation system capabilities (lower component), each related to the load or wind curtailment respectively which is another contribution of this paper. Finally, by establishment of a correlation between upper/lower component and load/wind curtailment, a suitable validity evaluation for the proposed system flexibility index is performed, which is another contribution of this paper.https://eej.aut.ac.ir/article_4133_c2d3bbd8286bccdd299b3007c3439d07.pdfpower system flexibilityflexibility area indexsystem flexibility indexwind/load curtailmentpearson correlation coefficient
spellingShingle Homayoun Berahmandpour
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A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility Indices
AUT Journal of Electrical Engineering
power system flexibility
flexibility area index
system flexibility index
wind/load curtailment
pearson correlation coefficient
title A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility Indices
title_full A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility Indices
title_fullStr A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility Indices
title_full_unstemmed A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility Indices
title_short A New Approach on Development of Power System Operational Flexibility Index by Combination of Generation Unit Flexibility Indices
title_sort new approach on development of power system operational flexibility index by combination of generation unit flexibility indices
topic power system flexibility
flexibility area index
system flexibility index
wind/load curtailment
pearson correlation coefficient
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