Probabilistic Evaluation of Reserve Requirements of Generating Systems with Renewable Power Sources: The Portuguese and Spanish Cases

Abstract

This paper presents an application of probabilistic methodologies to evaluate the reserve requirements of generating systems with large amounts of renewable energy sources. The idea is to investigate the behavior of reliability indices, including those from the well-being analysis, when the major portion of the renewable sources comes from the wind power. Renewable in this work mainly comprises hydroelectric, mini-hydroelectric and wind power sources. Case studies on configurations of the Portuguese and Spanish generating systems are presented and discussed.