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Multi-temporal decision-making problems require information about the potential temporal trajectories of wind generation for a given time horizon. Typically, the Gaussian copula is used for modelling the dependency between probabilistic forecasts from different lead-times. This paper explores the vine copula framework as a benchmark model since it captures complex multivariate dependence structures with mixed types of dependencies. The results show that a Gaussian copula with a suitable covariance matrix suffice to generate high quality temporal trajectories.

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Generally, the more Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in generation mix the more complex is the problem of reliability assessment of generating systems, mainly because of the variability and uncertainty of generating capacity. These short-term concerns have been seen as a way of controlling the amount of spinning reserve, providing operators with information on operation system risks. For the medium and long-term assessment, such short-term concerns should be accounted for the system performance [1,2], assuring that investment options will result in more robust and flexible generating configurations that are consequently more secure. In order to deal with the spinning reserve needs, this work proposes the use of a risk based technique, Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value at-Risk, to assist the planners of the Electric Power Systems (EPS) as regards the design of the flexibility of generating systems. This methodology was applied in the IEEE-RTS-96 HW producing adequate results.

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Nowadays, hydraulic sources are responsible for most of the Brazil's energy production. Hydroelectric power plants (HPP) operators in Brazil usually distribute equally the total power required among the generator units available in the plant. However, studies show that this configuration does not guarantee that each generator unit operate close to its optimal operation point. The energy dispatch optimization problem consists in determining which generation units need to be on or off and what is their respective power-set, so that both the overall HPP costs is minimized and the power required by the plant is met. This paper presents a GPU-based parallel implementation of NSGA-II, to solve the energy dispatch problem of a HPP complaying with the real time restrictions posed by the operation of a real HPP from the reception of the power demand to the energy dispatch. Our implementation obtains better solutions than the sequential implementation currently available.

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This paper presents an analysis of the impacts of photovoltaics and storage units for self-consumption in the day-ahead spot prices. A methodology is proposed, to access these impacts in the Iberian electricity market for 2015, 2020 and 2030.

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As Distributed Generation (DG) is increasingly integrated into the networks, intermittency issues of some types of DG (such as wind energy) will potentially increase network operating costs or decrease network security. Concern regarding these effects has grown among Network Operators and in order to avoid them, new or updated wind parks are required to provide ancillary services to the network. These ancillary services include the fault ride-through capability and mainly those wind parks connected to a collector switching or distribution substation are asked to provide this service. Although some wind parks can already supply fault ridethrough capability to the network, most of them are still largely unable to do so due to the current DG protection scheme. This work concentrates on the development and assessment of new settings for the wind park protection scheme by closed-loop test in real time. This aims to allow wind parks to provide fault ride-through capability to the distribution network. A distribution network with a DFIG based wind turbine with ride-through-fault capability was modelled on the RTDS Simulator. The protective relay settings were then implemented into a commercial numerical programmable relay to be assessed by closed-loop real time test. Conclusions of the protective relay with the fault ridethrough requirement are presented and discussed.