14.2 Construction & UC (UCC)

UCC is a method to determine the set of generating units that provides optimally the flexibility required to accommodate a given wind penetration, by bridging the gap between the long-term investment decisions about the plants to be built and the short-term operational decisions of how these plants are scheduled. (Ma et al. 2013)

References

Ma, Juan, Vera Silva, Régine Belhomme, Daniel S Kirschen, and Luis F Ochoa. 2013. “Evaluating and Planning Flexibility in Sustainable Power Systems.” In 2013 Ieee Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 1–11. IEEE.