Unbundling electric generation and transmission services

Brendan Kirby, Eric Hirst and James Vancoevering

Energy, 1995, vol. 20, issue 12, 1191-1203

Abstract: Today's typical vertically integrated utility sells electricity and associated services as a bundled product. These ancillary services support and make possible the provision of the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery. These ancillary services include the following: management of generating units; reserve generating capacity to follow variations in customer loads, to provide capacity and energy when generating units or transmission lines suddenly fail, to maintain electric-system stability, and to provide local area security; transmission-system monitoring and control; replacement of real power and energy losses; reactive-power management and voltage regulation; transmission reserves; repair and maintenance of the transmission network; metering, billing, and communications; and assurance of appropriate levels of power quality.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(95)00060-T

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