Considering renewables in capacity expansion models: Capturing flexibility with hourly dispatch
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Barrows, Clayton; Trieu Mai; Hale, Elaine; Lopez, Anthony; Eurek, Kelly
- Source
- 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2015 IEEE. :1-5 Jul, 2015
- Subject
- Engineering Profession
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Load modeling
Generators
Computational modeling
Planning
Wind
Renewable energy sources
Biological system modeling
Capacity Expansion
Optimization
Renewable Energy
- Language
- ISSN
- 1932-5517
The Resource Planning Model co-optimizes dispatch and capacity expansion using a simplified, chronological dispatch period representation and high-resolution resource, load and infrastructure data. The computational tractability of capacity expansion models depends on model simplifications. We demonstrate the effects of various dispatch period representations on model results using the Resource Planning Model.