Multi-market optimal scheduling of a power generation portfolio with a price-maker pumped-storage hydro unit

The increasing integration of renewables in the energy markets has been raising some challenges to generating companies (GENCOs), in terms of operation and planning of their generation portfolios. A GENCO aiming at maximizing its profits has to deal with offers to several available markets, among which are the Day-ahead Market (DAM) and the Secondary Reserve Market (SRM). This paper presents a scheduling solution of a price-maker GENCO whose portfolio includes a pumped-storage hydro unit, acting simultaneously in the DAM and SRM. The results were obtained for six different scenarios, where the portfolio may include a thermal generation unit and compares the GENCO behavior in both markets either as a price-taker or as a price-maker. The results put in evidence the portfolio effect when the GENCO takes into account its influence on price, which is seen in the price-maker scenarios, whereas the scheduling remains unchanged under the price-taker behavior.