What Future for the Grid Operator?

Frank Felder

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Abstract

This chapter examines how microgrids may affect organized wholesale electricity markets. Two different scenarios are explored. In the first scenario, referred to as "incremental changes," regional transmission organization/independent system operators (RTOs/ISOs) continue and even expand their central role in administering electricity markets, operating the power system, and planning transmission. They develop new wholesale electricity products to address the intermittency of wind and solar resources, extend their dispatch and unit commitment to include retail supply and demand resources, and increase the numbers of their membership. In the contrasting scenario, "decentralization dominates," RTOs/ISOs are relegated to a minimalist grid operator, balancing, when needed, numerous microgrids that infrequently, if at all, rely upon a centralized power system. Implications from these opposing scenarios are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDistributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry
PublisherElsevier Inc.
Pages399-415
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9780128003800, 9780128002407
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 24 2014

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Electricity
Planning
Power markets

Keywords

  • Decentralized generation
  • Independent system operators
  • Microgrids
  • Regional transmission operators
  • Wholesale electricity markets

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Engineering(all)

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Felder, F. (2014). What Future for the Grid Operator? In Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry (pp. 399-415). Elsevier Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800240-7.00020-5

What Future for the Grid Operator? / Felder, Frank.

Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry. Elsevier Inc., 2014. p. 399-415.

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Felder, F 2014, What Future for the Grid Operator? in Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry. Elsevier Inc., pp. 399-415. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800240-7.00020-5
Felder F. What Future for the Grid Operator? In Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry. Elsevier Inc. 2014. p. 399-415 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800240-7.00020-5
Felder, Frank. / What Future for the Grid Operator?. Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry. Elsevier Inc., 2014. pp. 399-415
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