Imperial College London
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DrIainStaffell

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy
 
 
 
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202Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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@article{Vijay:2017:10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.094,
author = {Vijay, A and Fouquet, N and Staffell, IL and Hawkes, AD},
doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.094},
journal = {Applied Energy},
pages = {111--123},
title = {The value of electricity and reserve services in low carbon electricity systems},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.094},
volume = {201},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Decarbonising electricity systems is essential for mitigating climate change. Future systems will likely incorporate higher penetrations of intermittent renewable and inflexible nuclear power. This will significantly impact on system operations, particularly the requirements for flexibility in terms of reserves and the cost of such services. This paper estimates the interrelated changes in wholesale electricity and reserve prices using two novel methods. Firstly, it simulates the short run marginal cost of generation using a unit commitment model with post-processing to achieve realistic prices. It also introduces a new reserve price model, which mimics actual operation by first calculating the day ahead schedules and then letting deviations from schedule drive reserve prices. The UK is used as a case study to compare these models with traditional methods from the literature. The model gives good agreement with and historic prices in 2015. In a 2035 scenario, increased renewables penetration reduces mean electricity prices, and leads to price spikes due to expensive plants being brought online briefly to cope with net load variations. Contrary to views previously held in literature, a renewable intensive scenario does not lead to a higher reserve price than a fossil fuel intensive scenario. Demand response technology is shown to offer sizeable economic benefits when maintaining system balance. More broadly, this framework can be used to evaluate the economics of providing reserve services by aggregating decentralised energy resources such as heat pumps, micro-CHP and electric vehicles.
AU  - Vijay,A
AU  - Fouquet,N
AU  - Staffell,IL
AU  - Hawkes,AD
DO  - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.094
EP  - 123
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1872-9118
SP  - 111
TI  - The value of electricity and reserve services in low carbon electricity systems
T2  - Applied Energy
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.094
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/48547
VL  - 201
ER  -
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