Modelling of the National Power System’s Daily Balancing Conditions in the Long-Term Horizon

Abstract

The paper presents a proposal of a stochastic methodology to assess the conditions of the daily balancing of the National Power System (NPS) in a long-term perspective. The simulation consists in multiple generation of time series corresponding to daily variation of individual components of the NPS power balance. The randomly generated time series take into account daily and seasonal variability of the power balance components consisting of power demand, output of non-centrally dispatched generating units (nJWCD), including renewable energy sources (RES), and centrally dispatched generating units (JWCD), which allows one to analyse the coincidence of many changing power balance components. The simulation results are the mean annual values and probability distributions of: 1. use of NPS regulatory resources, e.g. pumped storage power plants (ESP) 2. occurrence of critical events, e.g. power regulation bandwidth deficit or violation of the minimum number of operating JWCD criterion 3. events involving the need to limit RES power due to NPS operational security.