Operational Coordination is the systematic operational alignment of UtilityA generic term that may be used by Customers to describe one... Click for more and non-Utility assets to support System SecurityThe ability to continue operating the Power System within de... Click for more, AdequacyThe ability of the Power System to supply the total aggregat... Click for more, ReliabilityThe degree to which electric service that meets applicable u... Click for more and Economic Efficiency.
In the context of decarbonising Power SystemsA highly complex cyber-physical and transactional System tha... Click for more, it focuses on the advanced mechanisms required to coordinate tens of millions of diverse Energy ResourcesA universal term for all technologies that provide one or se... Click for more (both merchant and private) in a manner consist with individual priorities (‘local selfish optimisation’), mitigates negative Power System impacts and enhances system optimisation.
As the historically dominant Supply-sideThe upstream end of a conventional Power System where almost... Click for more / Demand-sideThe location where most Customers are connected to the Power... Click for more bifurcation erodes, the proportion of Synchronous GenerationA Generation Plant which is directly connected to the Power ... Click for more declines, and decarbonising Power System experience unprecedented levels of VolatilityThe propensity of rapid and/or unpredictable change, especia... Click for more will require:
Bulk power, transmission and distribution systems – and the rapidly expanding fleet of distributed resources – to be made capable of functioning far more dynamically and holistically end-to-end as an integrated, self-balancing system.
Due to the exponential growth in EnergyElectrical Energy is the product of electrical Power and tim... Click for more Resource numbers, types and ownership models, more advanced Operational Coordination models become critical to:
a) Enhance dynamic InteroperabilityThe capability of two or more Systems, Components or Applica... Click for more across the Transmission-Distribution Interface (TDI)The physical point at which the upstream Bulk Power and Tran... Click for more due to the Power System’s growing dependence on Energy Resources located both up and downstream:
b) Support more granular ‘market-control’ alignment to incentivise and activate targeted provision of grid services in the form of Electric ProductsThe physics-based services that may be provided by Energy Re... Click for more when and where most needed;
c) Enable the Co-optimisationCo-optimisation is a structured approach to ensuring that En... Click for more of services provided across the vertical Tiers/LayersThe vertical layers of a GW-scale Power System including the... Click for more of the Power System to both enhance operations and maximise the Electric Product ValueThe sustainable economic value of Electric Products provided... Click for more for participants;
d) Mitigate or avoid legacy Architectural IssuesFollowing are seven important structural issues that System ... Click for more that impede the ScalabilityAn architectural characteristic that takes the future scale ... Click for more, ExtensibilityAn architectural characteristic that takes the future extens... Click for more and ResilienceThe ability of the Power System to avoid or withstand stress... Click for more of Operational Coordination models; and,
e) Ultimately enable transition to a more holistic Transmission-Distribution-Customer (TDC) model of Operational Coordination customised to local industry structure arrangements.
Refer also to Layered Future ArchitectureA vision of the future Power System that is informed by the ... Click for more, Centralised Future ArchitectureA vision of a future Power System that is a logical extensio... Click for more and the Markets vs Control FallacyPolarised positions that assert the Orchestration of Distrib... Click for more.