A Novel Stochastic Reserve Cost Allocation Approach of Electricity Market Agents in the Restructured Power Systems

In this paper, a new mechanism is proposed to apportion expected reserve costs between electricity market agents in the power system. The uncertainties of generation units, transmission lines, wind power generation and electrical loads are considered in this model. Hence, a Stochastic Unit Commitment (SUC) is used to apply the uncertainty of stochastic variables in the simultaneous energy and reserve market- clearing problem. Moreover, electrical customers can participate in the electricity market based on their desired strategies. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to allocate reserve costs between GenCos, TransCos, electrical customers and wind farm owners. Consequently, market agents are responsible for paying a portion of the allocated expected reserve costs based on the economic metrics that are defined for the first time in this paper. Finally, two cases including a 3-bus test system and IEEE-RTS are utilized to illustrate the performance of the proposed mechanism to share the expected reserve costs.Amin Shokri Gazafroudi, Francisco Prieto-Castrillo, and Juan Manuel Corchado acknowledge the support by the European Commission H2020 MSCA-RISE-2014: Marie Sklodowska-Curie project DREAM-GO Enabling Demand Response for short and real-time Efficient And Market Based Smart Grid Operation - An intelligent and real-time simulation approach ref. 641794. Moreover, Miadreza Shafie-khah and João P. S. Catalão acknowledge the support by FEDER funds through COMPETE 2020 and by Portuguese funds through FCT, under Projects SAICT-PAC/0004/2015 - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016434, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961, UID/EEA/50014/2013, UID/CEC/50021/2013, and UID/EMS/00151/2013, and funding from the EU 7th Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under GA no. 309048