METODOLOGIA DE ANÁLISE PARA UM MERCADO COMPETITIVO DA POTÊNCIA REATIVA

Abstract

In this work a flexible methodology for computation of active and reactive power marginal costs in competitive electrical markets is proposed. In the formulation is adopted a static model of the synchronous generators which it considers the nonlinearity of the reactive power limits. The total reactive power production cost is considered as a non-linear model that represent the economic loss when an active power is not generated, that cost is referred as the opportunity cost. The reactive power production cost of the static compensators is also included in the formulation. The proposed methodology may calculate the active and reactive power marginal costs, the last ones incentive the agents of the electrical market to participate in a reactive power market. Those marginal costs are computed with a optimal power flow computer program that includes a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) which is a non-linear optimization method that uses na approximation of the Hessian matrix updated in a similar manner to the BGFS (Broyden - Fletcher Goldfarb Shanno) second order optimization method. A computer program, AMDREA, that takes in account the proposed methodology, has been coded in C++ and with object oriented programming techniques. The test systems IEEE 30-bus, IEEE 118-bus and a power system in the southern-south-east Brazilian region has been used to perform several simulations using the proposed methodology. Analysis of the test systems results indicate that the active and reactive power marginal costs supply economic signals that may incentive investments in reactive power by the distributors and big consumers. These results oppose with other results reported in the literature in which is considered that the reactive power productions costs are not relevant.