[LDES-coremodel] [LDES] planning reserves

[Julia Szinai]

Hi team,
Now that we've gotten the baseline data updates feasible again (yay!), I'm
planning to start a new SWITCH run to test the inclusion of
planning reserves.

Thanks Kenji for presenting about the different options for the planning
reserves. Here's my plan for how to start implementing for the baseline:

1. Planning reserve margin for peak load only (not all timepoints)

   - for a future scenario, there may be some way to get at the flexible
   resource adequacy requirements by using the "all time points" option, and
   setting the requirement to be higher for certain hours, and 1 for all other
   hours

2. Planning reserve margin applied for all load zones, with the
requirements combined by utilities in CA and AZ (ie all PG&E load zones
collectively have to reach 15% planning reserve requirements, rather than
individually, same with SCE, and APS in AZ)

   - we can also test if all of them have to reach the PRR individually


3. Use 15% reserve margin for all load zones to start

   - future scenario with 20% in CA load zones

4. Include all resources as able to provide capacity reserves:

   - including residential and commercial PV, since we are treating these
   as generators and not "load-modifiers" which is how I've done resource
   adequacy calculations before (reserve margin = 1.15 * (peak load - rooftop
   solar - energy efficiency))

5. Using default capacity values to start

   - Default is 1 for non-renewables
   - Default is maximum capacity factor for renewables: what I don't know
   is if that is the capacity factor maximum across all hours or just that
   hour?
   - Would be good to test how the results change with using ELCC
   (effective load carrying capacity) for solar and wind, which I believe is
   what is used for the IRP.

6. I don't think that hydropower is included in "renewables" here, so for
their capacity value for each time point, I'm using the average capacity
factor for that month, based on monthly average_flow_mw * hours in
month/nameplate capacity

   - Not sure if there is a better way to do this?

Let me know if you have any thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Julia
-- 
*Julia Szinai*
PhD Candidate | Energy & Resources Group | University of California,
Berkeley
Graduate Student Researcher | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
NSF InFEWS Fellow
Energy & Resources Group, MS '17
Goldman School of Public Policy, MPP '17
University of California, Berkeley
jszinai at berkeley.edu
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