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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Independent system operator"”.
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Possibilities for DERs: Evaluating Existing and New Models for DER Participation
… such as New England, DERs can only participate independently as price-takers in the wholesale electricity market while other regions, such as California, allow DERs to actively bid into the wholesale electricity market through large-scale aggregators that represent many individual DERs. …
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Analysis and performance evaluation of coordinated transaction scheduling
… methodology that is deployed by the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) and Independent System Operator-New England (ISO-NE) since December 15, 2015. The analysis and the quantification of the performance of any interchange evaluation methodology require the explicit representation of …
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Implementation and lessons learned from the Texas Synchrophasor Network
… at points hundreds of miles away. A few of these systems are presently operating in the US by electric grids including the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and California Independent System Operator (ISO). However, the systems are in their infancy and are far from being used to …
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Economic and Environmental Analysis of Cool Thermal Energy Storage as an Alternative to Batteries for the Integration of Intermittent Renewable Energy Sources
… displace electricity used for building cooling systems. When implemented by a utility, cool thermal energy storage can replace large utility scale batteries for renewable energy balancing in utility regions with high renewable energy penetration. The California Independent System Operator …
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Improving Predictability of Wind Power Generation
… with market data from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator and the Southwest Power Pool. The thesis then explores whether predictability of wind power generation can be improved by placing weather stations closer to the wind forecast sites. Implications of these findings can …
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Transmission losses cost allocation in restructed electricity market environment
During these recent decades, the restructuring system of electricity market has been taken places around the whole world. Due to the restructuring (deregulation), the electrical power system has been divided into three separates categories according to the function. First stage of power system is …
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Developing a natural gas trading hub in China
… reform should be implemented with setting up an Independent System Operator (ISO) in charge of the operation and the investment of pipelines, LNG terminals and other infrastructures, yet still leaving the ownership of the assets to the three big oil companies. Such unbundling should start from …
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Optimized FTR portfolio construction for market participants in a multi-period horizon
… their holders to receive reimbursements from the independent system operator (ISO) for the congestion rents when congestion happens in the direction specified by the FTR source and sink nodes. In this thesis, we extend the construction of an optimized FTR portfolio for a single period to more …
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Economic Analysis of a Data Center Virtual Power Plant Participating in Demand Response
… As the amount of demand on the transmission system increases, network congestion reduces the economic efficiency of the grid and begins to risk failure. Data centers have underutilized energy resources, such as backup generators and battery storage, which can be used for demand response (DR) …
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Active power ancillary service provision of commercial building energy storage resources
… control strategies of building energy storage systems and analyze their effects on operations of power grids and electricity markets. Specifically, novel control schemes of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and variable speed heat pumps (VSHPs) are proposed to improve grid frequency regulation …
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Optimal GENCO bidding strategy
… market equilibrium model not only helps Independent System Operator/Regulator analyze market performance and market power, but also provides Market Participants the ability to build optimal bidding strategies based on Microeconomics analysis. Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE) is …
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Modeling of Utility Distribution Feeder in OpenDSS with Steady State Impact Analysis of Distributed Generation
… losses and avoid transmission and distribution system expansion.;The primary objective of this thesis is to model a utility distribution feeder in OpenDSS. Studies are conducted on the data obtained from American Electric Power utility. This thesis develops models for 12.47 kV (medium voltage) …
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Explaining Technological Change of Wind Power in China and the United States: Roles of Energy Policies, Technological Learning, and Collaboration
… regional transmission network coordinated by an independent system operator or a regional transmission organization (ISO/RTO). </p> <p>In the third essay, I further explore how different transmission network governance models affect wind power integration through a comparative case study. I …
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Feasibility of retrofitting existing hydropower infrastructure for use in renewable energy storage
… generation to continue. Such retrofitted systems have already been built in the United States and Europe, proving that an approach of this type is feasible. In order to match the scale of the need, however, significantly more storage capacity is required. Therefore, we propose a widespread …
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Design of secondary voltage and stability controls with multiple control objectives
… Voltage/Stability Monitoring and Control System to counteract voltage violations and the impact of disturbances/contingencies on power system voltage stability. A decentralized voltage and stability control system is designed to coordinate the controls of the local secondary voltage …
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Analysis of the key issues in the provision of bulk electric grid services by distributed energy resource aggregations
… by the inability and unwillingness of bulk grid operators to expand their transmission grids. The intermittencies associated with RRs and the exacerbated flexibility requirements are some of the key challenges that hinder their deployment. The absence of a sufficient inventory of dispatchable …
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Effective utilization of flywheel energy storage (FES) for frequency regulation service provision
… in the form of wind farms and solar photovoltaic systems has impacted power system operations and planning in many ways. Today, renewable energy resources constitute a significant portion of new power generation capacity additions. As the outputs of renewable generation resources are function of …
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Market Power and Regulatory Failure in the Montana Wholesale Electricity Market
This work investigates market power and regulatory failures in the Montana wholesale electrical market after the implementation of deregulation in 1997. It provides a review of the development of the Montana wholesale electrical market, federal and state market power regulation, economic theory, …
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Market Power and Regulatory Failure in the Montana Wholesale Electricity Market
This work investigates market power and regulatory failures in the Montana wholesale electrical market after the implementation of deregulation in 1997. It provides a review of the development of the Montana wholesale electrical market, federal and state market power regulation, economic theory, …