November 8, 2022
The way that demand flexibility and distributed resources are modelled in resource adequacy has a significant impact on resource adequacy. That impact will grow over time as decentralization of the power system continues apace. Resource Adequacy Is About the Ability to Avoid Load Shedding Grids have inherited a resource adequacy assessment framework that has been synthesized over time into a requirement for sufficient generating capacity to meet demand with a high level of certainty. But the lines are not quite so clear cut in the emerging power system—demand is a concept of customer utility which can be translated into power and energy, but which is influenced by incentives, tariffs, smart controls,…
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