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Balancing area map for WECC used in the TEPPC 2024 database [7]. Refer to [7] for description of balancing areas. Reproduced by permission of WECC.
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Electricity-grid operators are facing new challenges in matching load and generation due to increased solar generation and peak-load growth. This paper demonstrates that time-of-use (TOU) rates are an effective method to address these challenges. TOU rates use price differences to incentivize conserving electricity during peak hours and encouraging...
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... lines (≥69 kW) were included in the modelling, leading to high geographic resolution, while, for the WECC areas outside of Arizona, the transmission lines were aggregated by zone and the limitations of the transmission constraints between zones were enforced. Table 1 shows the number of generators, nodes and lines modelled for this study. Fig. 5 shows the balancing areas included in the WECC 2024 TEPPC database [7]. The balancing areas in Arizona, APS, Salt River Project (SRP) and Tucson Electric Power (TEP) (in Fig. 5, APS is labelled as AZPS and TEP is labelled as TEPC) were modelled with high geographic resolution nodally while the rest of the WECC has lower geographic ...
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... by zone and the limitations of the transmission constraints between zones were enforced. Table 1 shows the number of generators, nodes and lines modelled for this study. Fig. 5 shows the balancing areas included in the WECC 2024 TEPPC database [7]. The balancing areas in Arizona, APS, Salt River Project (SRP) and Tucson Electric Power (TEP) (in Fig. 5, APS is labelled as AZPS and TEP is labelled as TEPC) were modelled with high geographic resolution nodally while the rest of the WECC has lower geographic resolution, due to the aggregation of transmission constraints. Since the database was originally developed in 2014, plans and predictions for the state of Arizona have changed. ...
