Modeling hydropower operations at the scale of a power grid
A demand-based approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19064745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laure Baratgin (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Jan Polcher (0000-0001-9020-5795, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Patrice Dumas (0000-0002-3896-7589, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, corresponding author), Philippe Quirion (0000-0003-4066-2984, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | PREPRINT |
| Publisher | Copernicus GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.5194/egusphere-2023-3106 |
| OpenAlex | W4390666034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Climate change and evolving water management practices may have a profound impact on hydropower generation. While hydrological models have been widely used to assess these effects, they often present some limitations. A major challenge lies in the modeling of release decisions for hydropower reservoirs, which result from intricate trade-offs, involving power sector dispatch, competing water uses and the spatial allocation of power generation within the grid. To address this gap, this study introduces a novel demand-based approach for integrating hydropower within the routing module of land surface models. First, hydropower infrastructures are placed in coherence with the hydrological network and links are built between hydropower plants and their supplying reservoirs to explicitly represent water transfers built for hydropower generation. Then, coordinated dam operation is simulated by distributing a prescribed electric demand to be satisfied by hydropower over the different power plants on the power grid, while considering the operational constraints associated with the multipurpose nature of most dams. To validate our approach, this framework is implemented within the water transport scheme of a land surface model and assessed with the case study of the French electrical system. We drive the model with a high-resolution atmospheric reanalysis and prescribe the observed national hydropower production as the total power demand to be met by hydropower infrastructures. By comparing the simulated evolution of the stock in reservoirs to the observations, we find that the model simulates realistic operations of reservoirs and successfully satisfies hydropower production demands over the entire period. We highlight the roles of uncertainties in estimated precipitation and of the limited knowledge of hydropower networks on the estimation of production. Finally, we show that such an integration of hydropower operations in the model improves the simulations of river discharges in mountainous catchments affected by hydropower
Civil engineering · Economics · Electricity · Electricity generation · Environmental economics · Grid · Hydrological modelling · Hydropower · Water resource management · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Science · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Water resources management and optimization · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |