Title
Spatial-economic framework to estimate small biomass plant remuneration in reactive power markets
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Federal University of ABC
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
With growing shares of renewable power generation, ancillary services such as reactive power become increasingly important to balance power systems. In this work, we provide a framework to assess the suitability of small biomass power plants, i.e., less than 5 MW, for reactive power markets. The proposed methodology consists of two-stages and considers the spatial relationship between the biomass plants’ location and the regional transmission system and tests different plant remuneration scenarios. In the first step, the reactive energy potentials available from biomass plants are quantified and located through spatial analysis, considering locational factors that influence the economic value that these plants bring to the ancillary services markets. Second, a financial analysis is performed to determine how each biomass plant's electricity bill can be reduced through participation in ancillary services markets. Resulting layers of geographic information provide system operators and policymakers with the available reactive power potential and required financial compensation of biomass plant owners close to the electricity transmission system. The methodology is applied to a case study in São Paulo, Brazil, using data from sugar and alcohol plants installed near the regional transmission system's 138 kV lines to assess the implementation of a seasonal reactive power market.
Volume
28
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85118897484
Source
Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks
ISSN of the container
23524677
Sponsor(s)
This study was financed by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brazil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001; by São Paulo Research Foundation - Brazil (FAPESP) under grants: 2019/00466-6 and 2021/08832-1 ; by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - Brazil (CNPq) under grant: 422044/2018-0 ; and by Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Energia Elétrica - Brazil (INCT-INERGE) .
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