Abstract
Solar cell generators (SCGs) offer a renewable and environmentally-friendly source for generating electricity. However, their intermittent nature affects power system reliability. This paper studies the effect of SCGs on power system reliability under various penetration levels. A unit commitment economic dispatch (UCED) model is developed to compute the expected generation output by taking into account normal and contingency operations of conventional generators (CGs) and the forecasted solar radiation and forced outage rates (FORs) of solar farms (SFs). The UCED is applied on a test system consisting of 10 CGs and different penetration levels of solar generation. Then, the expected SCGs power output and the forecasted load probabilistic model is inputted to the probabilistic production costing (PPC) method to assess reliability, compute projected production cost, and capacity credit for the SCGs.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2019 |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728119816 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting |
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| Volume | 2019-August |
| ISSN (Print) | 1944-9925 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1944-9933 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 IEEE.
Keywords
- Capacity credit
- expected unserved energy
- load carrying capacity
- loss of load probability
- mixed integer programming
- solar cell generator
- solar farm
- unit commitment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
