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Recent Behavior of the Responsive Reserve Market presented to the Demand-Side Working Group December 2005. RRS Cost. Q: What is the “cost” of RRS? A: Every $1 in RRS prices = $20M/year to the market (8760 hrs/yr *2300 MW) = $61k/year per 100 MW load * .
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Recent Behavior of the Responsive Reserve Market presented to theDemand-Side Working Group December 2005
RRS Cost • Q: What is the “cost” of RRS? • A: Every $1 in RRS prices = $20M/year to the market (8760 hrs/yr *2300 MW) = $61k/year per 100 MW load*. • For example:An entity with 250 MW of load retains an additional $458k / year if RRS prices are lowered by $3 / MWh*. • (Based on 8760 hours/year, 2300 MW RRS every hour, average system load of 33,000 MW.)
RRS-MCPC (Jan ’04 – Nov ’05) • RRS prices generally track BES and natural gas prices. • RRS shows greater % volatility than either BES or natural gas.
Hurricane Rita and RRS After the first shock, increased generator bids returned the bid stack to app. 93% of it’s typical size. But RRS-MCPC stayed 200% to 400% higher until 300+ MW of LaaR returned.
Hurricane Rita and AS RRS price often moved counter to BES price. RRS price movements are difficult to correlate with other AS prices.
RRS Bids and Marginal Cost • Neither generators nor loads seem to be bidding their marginal cost for providing RRS. • The “marginal cost” of providing RRS is difficult to quantify for both generators and loads. • Generators routinely bid into RRS at $.01. As a typical example, in May of 2005 generators submitted 476 bids covering 36,391 MWh at $.01.Another 1,179 bids covering 42,801 MWh were submitted in May at $.11 or less, including one generator that bid in every hour of every day.