The systematic operational alignment of UtilityA generic term that may be used by Customers to describe one... Click for more assets and non-Utility Energy ResourcesA universal term for all technologies that provide one or se... Click for more via Dispatch InstructionsInstructions issued by the Market/System Operator (MSO), Dis... Click for more, direct technical control and/or market-based incentives, to ensure System SecurityThe ability to continue operating the Power System within de... Click for more, Resource AdequacyThe ability of the Power System to supply the total aggregat... Click for more and economic efficiency over time windows from days to milliseconds.
As the proportion of conventional Synchronous GenerationA Generation Plant which is directly connected to the Power ... Click for more declines, and growing levels of operational VolatilityThe propensity of rapid and/or unpredictable change, especia... Click for more are experienced with the deployment of Variable Renewable Energy (VRE)A generic term for Generation Plant that are powered by rene... Click for more, scalable new models of coordination become essential. In many contexts, this presents significant challenges as GW-scale Power SystemsA critical societal System that, in the case of GW-scale gri... Click for more transition from hundreds to tens of millions of participating Energy Resources.
Importantly, while legacy Power Systems often have entrenched structural demarcations, the Laws of Physics interact with them as singular, integrated SystemsA set of Components that are formally related together by a ... Click for more. In a high-VRE and high-CER/DER context, advanced Operational Coordination mechanisms will be required to enable the Bulk Power SystemThe large-scale Generation Plant and other Energy Resources ... Click for more, Transmission NetworksThe High Voltage (HV) network that transports Power over lon... Click for more and Distribution NetworksA network that transports Electricity from the Bulk Supply P... Click for more – and the rapidly expanding fleet of Consumer Energy Resources (CER/DER)A diverse range of small to medium scale energy resources th... Click for more – to function together more dynamically and holistically as a self-balancing system.
The concept of Operational Coordination is integral to the topic of OrchestrationThe coordination of dispatchable Energy Resources, includi... Click for more. Refer also to the topics of Electric ProductsThe valuable physics-based services that may be provided to ... Click for more, Electric Product ValueThe sustainable economic value of Electric Products provided... Click for more, Value StackingThe process of providing Electric Products to several vertic... Click for more and Co-optimisationCo-optimisation is a structured approach to ensuring that En... Click for more.