Modeling of balancing power

[gktho...@gmail.com]

Hi everybody,

I was wondering if there is a way to model balancing services with pypsa, mainly upward balancing power. What I would basically like to do is to include a constraint that makes the model withhold a certain amount of on line capacity.

So far I thought of creating a second node with the balancing demand. But then, I guess I could not select which power plants are able to provide balancing services. Furthermore, it would be perfect if the model wouldn't need to "burn fuel" to provide balancing reserves.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Georg

[Max Parzen]

Hi Georg,

Yes, balancing services can be explored. Both PyPSA-Eur and PyPSA-Earth implemented reserve constraints.
Check also our recent user meeting out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmwDxNpSMM4

Someone was speaking about frequency reserves & how they model it.
Such an implementation would be highly welcome.

Best wishes,

Max

[Carlo]

Hello Max,

I am also interested on implementing power balance on Pypsa in an small nordic model I am developing in the USN in Norway but I have not found the video segment you are mentioning in the comment above. Could you help me to find it? I would appreciate it.

Carlos

[Max Parzen]

Hi Carlo,

For the Nordic model, I recommend using PyPSA-Eur and not developing from scratch. You can reduce the EU model to any group of countries in the config file: https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/blob/98c4a1e0f069cdaaa3e4c98fccd2869d148d8d12/config/config.default.yaml#L62. While PyPSA-Eur looks big, there is also a ton of training material available e.g. PyPSA-Earth hackathon or PyPSA-Eur tutorial. Exploring there your "power balancing" task can have more impact.

The frequency reserve video using PyPSA can be found here: https://youtu.be/fmwDxNpSMM4?t=8043

Best wishes,

Max

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