TY - GEN
T1 - Current issues in reactive power management
T2 - IEEE Power and Energy Society 2008 General Meeting: Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, PES
AU - Chicco, Gianfranco
AU - Gross, George
PY - 2008/9/29
Y1 - 2008/9/29
N2 - This paper reviews specific issues and challenges in reactive power management within the competitive electricity market context and increasing requirements of system security. The basic aspects refer to the specific constraints introduced by the capability curves of the generating units, the notion of opportunity costs and the questionable role of obligation to serve concerns. Other key issues are related to the responsibilities of the grid operator in transmission networks, the mechanisms for reactive power procurement with critical concerns about the use of optimization procedures, the importance of obtaining meaningful indicators and suitable sensitivity information to characterize the power system operation, and the needs for developing specific calculations based on the value of reactive support during normal operation and in dynamic conditions.
AB - This paper reviews specific issues and challenges in reactive power management within the competitive electricity market context and increasing requirements of system security. The basic aspects refer to the specific constraints introduced by the capability curves of the generating units, the notion of opportunity costs and the questionable role of obligation to serve concerns. Other key issues are related to the responsibilities of the grid operator in transmission networks, the mechanisms for reactive power procurement with critical concerns about the use of optimization procedures, the importance of obtaining meaningful indicators and suitable sensitivity information to characterize the power system operation, and the needs for developing specific calculations based on the value of reactive support during normal operation and in dynamic conditions.
KW - Generator capability curve
KW - Independent grid operator
KW - Lost opportunity costs
KW - Obligation to serve
KW - Pricing
KW - Reactive power
KW - Reactive power and voltage support ancillary service
KW - System security
KW - Voltage support
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U2 - 10.1109/PES.2008.4596731
DO - 10.1109/PES.2008.4596731
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52349095337
SN - 9781424419067
T3 - IEEE Power and Energy Society 2008 General Meeting: Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, PES
BT - IEEE Power and Energy Society 2008 General Meeting
Y2 - 20 July 2008 through 24 July 2008
ER -