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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2019
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc., Carmel, IN (US);
Yonghong Chen, Zionsville, IN (US);
Congcong Wang, Carmel, IN (US);
Charles William Hansen, Carmel, IN (US);
Jason Coy Howard, Russiaville, IN (US);
Kimberly Lynn Sperry, Carmel, IN (US);
Kevin Andrew Vannoy, Carmel, IN (US);
Chunheng Wang, Carmel, IN (US);
Fengyu Wang, Carmel, IN (US);
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc., Carmel, IN (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a combined-cycle electrical power grid by: accepting, from combined cycle power generation participants, combined cycle offers for valid combined cycle configurations, each including identification of power generator type(s) for the configuration and the offers including at least three levels of parameter information pertaining for the valid combined cycle configurations, the three levels including, (a) resource level parameters that describe transition information between the valid combined cycle configurations, (b) configuration level parameters that describe operating parameters for each valid configuration; and (c) component level parameters that describe operating parameters for specific power generator components included in a valid configuration; selecting commitments from the combined cycle offers based upon the resource level parameters, the configuration level parameters and the component level parameters; and controlling dispatch of electricity based upon the commitments.