Costs for electric-power ancillary services

✍ Scribed by Eric Hirst; Brendan Kirby

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 464 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1040-6190
• DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6190(96)80153-9

✦ Synopsis

Costs For Electric-Power Ancillary Services

Ancillary-service costs comprise a substantial share as much as 25 percent of total bulk power costs. The cost levels and the great variation in the cost of different services suggests that additional work is needed to define each service and identify how much of it is required.