Reserve Sharing + HVDC Constraint

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Matt Woods posted this 18 March 2020

I have been investigating times at which the SPD final dispatch appears to be constrained by the limit on the sum of the HVDC and the shared reserve received at the North Island.

I think the relevant constraint in the SPD Formulation (11.3) is 5.5.2.6,  In this formula the RHS is HVDCMaxLessMR.

There appear to have been a few of these events on 17th Dec 2019, specifically TP 19.   

On TP 19 the shared reserve north (RESSENTTO6S; RESSENTTO60S) has been constrained to 0.  The HVDC dispatch north  (DCN) is 826 MW, and there is a price differential across the HVDC.  I am trying to find where the limit of 826 came from, but I am not having much luck yet.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Tuong Nguyen posted this 24 March 2020

Hi Matt,

HVDC max for the trading period is 856 MW (Branch constraint : BEN_HAYmax <= 856 MW)

Modulation Risk for the trading period is 30 MW

==> max HVDC transfer is 826 MW

Hope this help.

Tuong