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Quantifying the Operational Benefits of Conventional and Advanced Pumped Storage Hydro on Reliability and Efficiency: Preprint

  • Ibrahim Krad
  • , Vladimir Koritarov
  • Argonne National Laboratory

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Abstract

Pumped storage hydro (PSH) plants have significant potential to provide reliability and efficiency benefits in future electric power systems with high penetrations of variable generation. New PSH technologies, such as adjustable-speed PSH, have been introduced that can also present further benefits. This paper demonstrates and quantifies some of the reliability and efficiency benefits afforded by PSH plants by utilizing the Flexible Energy Scheduling Tool for the Integration of Variable generation (FESTIV), an integrated power system operations tool that evaluates both reliability and production costs.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages7
StatePublished - 2014
EventIEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - National Harbor, Maryland
Duration: 27 Jul 201431 Jul 2014

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
CityNational Harbor, Maryland
Period27/07/1431/07/14

NLR Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5D00-60806

Keywords

  • area control error
  • automatic generation control (AGC)
  • electricity markets
  • pumped storage hydro (PSH)
  • variable generation

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