Issues in running the ancillary service market extension

[Vijay Kunmar]

Hello Sir,

I am a new user of TIMES. I am trying to incorporate TIMES's ancillary service market extension into my base model developed for power sector capacity expansion planning. I am using VEDA FE 4.5.834 and VEDA BE 4.9.2019 version. 

Attributes used in Unit Commitment scenario file are: ACT_MINLD, ACT_UPS, ACT_TIME, ACT_SDTIME, ACT_CSTSD, ACT_MAXNON, NCAP_SEMI.

Attributes used in the ancillary service extension of TIMES are: BS_RTYPE, BS_SIGMA, BS_OMEGA, BS_DETWT, BS_DEMDET, BS_LAMBDA, BS_DELTA, GR_GENMAP, BS_RMAX, BS_STIME, BS_MAINT, NCAP_AFS, BS_SHARE.

Attached are the files for unit commitment and ancillary service extension.

All parameters and commodities defined in these two files are correctly visible in TIMES view (VEDA FE). However, after running the model, the results respond to the unit commitment attributes but no changes are there for the ancillary service market, even no commodities are visible in VEDA BE used to define the reserve type. 

Kindly help me to resolve the issue.

[Antti-L]

I have not been much using the ABS extension, but there is a working example available:
  AS_DEMO_VEDA_Templates.zip

I suggest to see if that works for you. And see also how ABS is activated (in SysSettings, Defaults).

[MikkelBosack]

Hi Vijay

I bit late and perhaps you have already solved the issue?

Is the ancillary service commodities defined elsewhere? and which TIMES solver version are you using, it has to be a more recent version.

Best
mikkel