Well-Being Analysis of Power Systems Considering Increasing Deployment of Gas Turbines

Bomiao Liang, Weijia Liu, Fushuan Wen and Md. Abdus Salam
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Bomiao Liang: School of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, No. 38 Zheda Rd., Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, China
Weijia Liu: School of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, No. 38 Zheda Rd., Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, China
Fushuan Wen: Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Md. Abdus Salam: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan BE1410, Brunei

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: With the significant decrease in natural gas prices in many parts of the world, the employment of gas turbine (GT) units has increased steadily in recent years. The ever-increasing deployment of GT units is strengthening the interconnections between electric power and natural gas systems, which could provide a higher level of operational flexibility and reliability. As a result, the planning and operation issues in the interconnected electric power and natural gas systems have aroused concern. In these circumstances, the impacts of increasing deployment of GT units in power system operation are studied and evaluated through well-being analysis (WBA). The fast responsive characteristics of GT units are analyzed first, and the definition and adaption of WBA in a power system with increasing deployment of GT units are addressed. Then the equivalent reserve capacity of GT units is estimated, taking demand fluctuations, commitment plans, and operational risks of GT units into account. The WBA of a power system with increasing deployment of GT units is conducted considering the uncertainties of system operation states and renewable energy sources. Finally, the proposed methods are validated through an integrated version of the IEEE 118-bus power system and a 10-bus natural gas system, and the impacts of GT units on power system security under various penetration levels are examined. Simulation results demonstrate that the role of a GT unit as a low-cost electricity producer may conflict with its role as a reserve provider, but through maintaining a proper proportion of idle GT capacities for reserve, the well-being performance of the power system concerned can be significantly improved.

Keywords: integrated power and natural gas system; well-being analysis (WBA); gas turbine (GT); four-state model; equivalent reserve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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