dc.contributor.author | KEYAERTS, Nico | |
dc.contributor.author | DELARUE, Erik | |
dc.contributor.author | ROMBAUTS, Yannick | |
dc.contributor.author | D'HAESELEER, William | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-09T17:20:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-09T17:20:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Applied energy, 2014, Vol. 119, pp. 266-277 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0306-2619 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1872-9118 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/39473 | |
dc.description.abstract | The gas system in Europe is facing increasing unpredictability due to the interactions with the electricity generation system. Indeed, gas fired power plants make up an important back-up technology to deal with intermittency induced by wind-power integration. Therefore, the flexibility needs with respect to unpredictable power generation are actually transferred to the gas market. Applying the well-known electric power generation concepts of 'unit commitment' and 'dispatching' to the gas market, a hypothetical gas-transmission system has been modeled to verify, first, the physical impact of wind power forecasting errors on the gas system, and, second, its effect on the organization of gas-imbalance settlement for non-market-based and market-based design options. Increasing unpredictability leads to more expensive physical balancing of the gas system. These costs should be borne as much as possible by those effectively causing them. From a regulatory point of view in the European context, cost recovery by means of non-market-based settlement faces the problem of defining an appropriate cost-neutral penalty that covers the balancing costs and incentivizes shippers. Market-based settlement relates the variable imbalance tariffs to the actual system imbalance and thus any factor that strongly impacts on the system state like unpredictability. However, this mechanism raises imbalance-settlement tariffs for all unbalanced gas network users, even if the major source of unpredictability is a clearly identifiable shipper. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Applied energy | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | [Florence School of Regulation] | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | [Gas] | en |
dc.title | Impact of unpredictable renewables on gas-balancing design in Europe | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.011 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 119 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 266 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 277 | |
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