DER VET User Guide/Services/Non Spinning Reserves

Non-Spinning Reserves are off-line generation capacity that can start up and provide power usually within 10 minutes.

Non-Spinning reserve is utilized primarily to protect against contingencies, notably unplanned outages of major facilities such as transmission lines or generators. Non-Spinning Reserve is acquired from units that are not synchronized and can provide full awarded capacity in (usually) 10 minutes. When dispatched, the resource must be capable of sustaining its awarded capacity for (usually) 30 minutes to one hour. Payments are for capacity reserved ($/kW).

A DER providing non-spinning reserves is modeled to reserve its awarded power capacity and corresponding energy capability for the awarded hours. To fulfill non-spinning reserve requirements when called, the ability to adjust the scheduled power level of the DER mix is guaranteed by the optimization. By reserving the ability to change its power capacity, the DER mix makes sure that, when called for non-spinning reserve, it will be able to reduce its charging power and increase its discharging/generating power based on the amount of non-spinning reserves it is providing and sustain this for the duration required by the market’s rules.

1. Inputs
   1. 1. Growth

Tag	Key	Description
NSR	growth	This input grows the 'NSR Price ($/kW)' timeseries input.

1. 1. 1. Duration

Tag	Key	Description
NSR	duration	The duration of the NSR service represents the continuous energy requirement for participating DERs. In other words, if a DER is called to provide power to fulfill its NSR obligations, it must be able to deliver the power it promised for this duration.

1. 1. 1. Timeseries Constraints

Tag	Key	Description
NSR	ts_constraints	This input determines if the Minimum Non-Spinning Reserves and Maximum Non-Spinning Reserves timeseries inputs are included as constraints in the optimization.

1. Optimization Details
   1. Objectives

Non-Spinning reserves modifies the objective function by adding the term Non-Spinning Reserves * Non-Spinning Reserves Price * dt

1. 1. Constraints

Non-Spinning reserves applies a constraint requiring the DERs to maintain the ability to continuously provide energy for the duration required.

Non-Spinning reserves also ensure that, should the DERs be called to provide power for non-spinning reserves, that the DERs can feasibly provide the power without overlapping with any other service.