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Resource and revenue potential of California residential load participation in ancillary services

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  • Mathieu, Johanna L.
  • Dyson, Mark E.H.
  • Callaway, Duncan S.

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Increasing penetrations of intermittent renewable energy resources will require additional power system services. California recently adopted an energy storage mandate to support its renewable portfolio standard, which requires 33% of delivered energy from renewables by 2020. The objective of this paper is to estimate the amount of energy storage that could be provided by residential thermostatically controlled loads, such as refrigerators and air conditioners, and the amount of revenue that could be earned by loads participating in ancillary services markets. We model load aggregations as virtual energy storage, and use simple dynamical system models and publicly available data to generate our resource and revenue estimates. We find that the resource potential is large: 10–40GW/8–12GWh, which is significantly more than that required by the mandate. We also find that regulation and spinning/non-spinning reserve revenues vary significantly depending upon type of load and, for heat pumps and air conditioners, climate zone. For example, mean regulation revenues for refrigerators are $11/year, for electric water heaters are $24/year, for air conditioners are $0-32/year, and for heat pumps are $22–56/year. Both consumer choices, such as appliance settings, and policy, such as the design of ancillary service compensation and appliance standards, could increase revenue potentials.

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  • Mathieu, Johanna L. & Dyson, Mark E.H. & Callaway, Duncan S., 2015. "Resource and revenue potential of California residential load participation in ancillary services," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 76-87.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:enepol:v:80:y:2015:i:c:p:76-87
    DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.01.033
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