A bottom-up approach to leverage the participation of residential aggregators in reserve services markets

Publication Type

Journal Article

Date Published

07/2016

Authors

DOI

Abstract

The increase of demand side participation in reserve service (RS) requires the extension of the markets' activity to the millions of consumers present in the residential sector. This paper proposes a method that performs a bottom-up aggregation of residential demand-side flexibility associated with domestic appliances, namely Thermostatically Controlled Loads (TCL). The flexibility profiles provided by each residential consumer are transformed into aggregated reserve bids to be offered in the day ahead tertiary reserve markets. A case study involving 1500 end-users associated with an aggregator bidding in the Portuguese tertiary reserve market will be used to illustrate the method.

Journal

Electric Power Systems Research

Volume

136

Year of Publication

2016

ISSN

03787796

Organization