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Title: Coordinating Distribution System Resources for Co-optimized Participation in Energy and Ancillary Service Transmission System Markets
his work investigates the potential of using aggregate controllable loads and energy storage systems from multiple heterogeneous feeders to jointly optimize a utility's energy procurement cost from the real-time market and their revenue from ancillary service markets. Toward this, we formulate an optimization problem that co-optimizes real-time and energy reserve markets based on real-time and ancillary service market prices, along with available solar power, storage and demand data from each of the feeders within a single distribution network. The optimization, which includes all network system constraints, provides real/reactive power and energy storage set-points for each feeder as well as a schedule for the aggregate system's participation in the two types of markets. We evaluate the performance of our algorithm using several trace-driven simulations based on a real-world circuit of a New Jersey utility. The results demonstrate that active participation through controllable loads and storage significantly reduces the utility's net costs, i.e., real-time energy procurement costs minus ancillary market revenues.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1711188 1752362
NSF-PAR ID:
10106062
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Journal Name:
American Control Conference
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1315 to 1322
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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