{"title":"Implementation of regulation as an ancillary service in Eskom and the use of Eskom internal web for this service","authors":"G. Chown, M. Coetzee","doi":"10.1109/PICA.1999.779409","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the implementation of regulation as a competitive ancillary service in Eskom. Eskom is presently forming a grid operator business, which is responsible for buying ancillary services and providing a reliable transmission network. The process of defining system performance criteria is described. The total costing of the regulation service to a single coal-fired generator was done using EPRI cost calculations. The performance of an individual generator is calculated along the guidelines of NERC Policy 10, with no allowance for over-control. This performance criterion determines regulation performance and payment to the generator. Over 750 points an downloaded every 4 seconds from the energy management system. System performance and individual unit performance are calculated using standard packages. This information is then made available in near-real time on the Eskom internal web in graphic and tabular form. This allows each generator to continually see its actual performance.","PeriodicalId":113146,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Power Industry Computer Applications. Connecting Utilities. PICA 99. To the Millennium and Beyond (Cat. No.99CH36351)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Power Industry Computer Applications. Connecting Utilities. PICA 99. To the Millennium and Beyond (Cat. No.99CH36351)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PICA.1999.779409","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper describes the implementation of regulation as a competitive ancillary service in Eskom. Eskom is presently forming a grid operator business, which is responsible for buying ancillary services and providing a reliable transmission network. The process of defining system performance criteria is described. The total costing of the regulation service to a single coal-fired generator was done using EPRI cost calculations. The performance of an individual generator is calculated along the guidelines of NERC Policy 10, with no allowance for over-control. This performance criterion determines regulation performance and payment to the generator. Over 750 points an downloaded every 4 seconds from the energy management system. System performance and individual unit performance are calculated using standard packages. This information is then made available in near-real time on the Eskom internal web in graphic and tabular form. This allows each generator to continually see its actual performance.