Grid-Friendly Renewable Energy: Solar and Wind Participation in Automatic Generation Control Systems

Research Priorities and Opportunities in United States Wholesale Electricity Markets

“…Wind and solar plants can be a source of ERS (Milligan 2018), and various demonstrations show that wind and solar have this capability (Loutan et al 2017;Loutan and Gevorgian 2020;Rebello et al 2020). Some balancing authorities have multiple years of operating experience integrating wind into automatic generation control (Chernyakhovskiy et al 2019). Experience with Kauai's island grid demonstrates the feasibility of operating with 100% instantaneous renewable penetration.…”

A Framework for Readiness Assessments of Utility-Scale Energy Storage

“…However, this can be technically difficult to implement because of communication infrastructure requirements. Alternatively, inertia driven synchronous generators (e.g., coal and natural gas generators) may use mechanical governors to compensate and correct deviations, although doing so may cause premature mechanical wear to the generator if over-relied upon (Chernyakhovskiy et al 2019;Ela and R.B. Hytowitz 2019).…”

Regulatory Foundations for Cross-Border Electricity Trading: Bangladesh

“…The government could establish DR rules that would both provide domestic value to Bangladesh and lay the foundation for additional value if cross-border DR were to expand under MBED. This would involve foresight into the communications protocol that would likely be required to dispatch DR through MBED, such as automatic generation control along with developing regulations to require testing and validation of performance for DR participants (Chernyakhovskiy 2019).…”