August 5, 2022
Some topics are exciting to discuss for everybody. Others, well, it takes a select few who can call on their inner geekiness to appreciate. Operating reserve fits that category. It is resource adequacy’s “here and now” operational cousin — capacity above or below what is needed to meet the anticipated system conditions, used during operational time frames just in case things change. It comes in many shapes and sizes … and names. I remember more than a decade ago working with system operators across the world for an International Energy Agency initiative to describe our different methods for operating reserve. We spent six months just figuring out which ones were which…
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