A. Case and data description
B. No reserve capacity procurement
This could be the case that if the reserve capacity price is much higher than the VOLL
In this case, only Unit 3 & Unit 4 are engaged, because they have the lowest marginal cost
With reserve capacity procurement
Case 1: with no procurement of reserve capacity
Case 2: <span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">10 MW reserve capacity is procured from Unit 5</font></span>
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<span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">Case 2 instead increases the EENS than that of Case 1</font></span>
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<span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">Reason: When Unit 5 is brought online, Unit 4 with a higher capacity will be offline because of minimizing the generators operating cost. Consequently, the total available up-regulating reserve capacity is reduced</font></span> <br style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
<span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">This implies that the total available reserve capacity does not necessarily increase when procuring more<br>reserve capacity.</font></span>
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Case 3 & Case 4: <span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">30 MW of reserve capacity is procured, but from different<br>units</font></span>
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<span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">Case 4 has a lower EENS than Case 3, but has a higher<br>operating cost.</font></span>
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Reason: <span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">the three units in Case 4 have the highest capacity, but the ones in Case 3 have the lowest<br>marginal cost. </font></span>
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Case 5: <span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">an additional 10 MW reserve capacity procured from Unit 6</font></span> compared with Case 4
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<span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">The EENS remains the same and does not decrease</font></span> compared with VCae 4<br><br style=" font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
Case 6: <span class="fontstyle0"><font color="#231f20" size="2">the additional 10 MW reserve capacity is produced<br>from Unit 2 instead</font></span>
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The EENS become zero