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Publish Date : 28-Nov-2013

Indra has been awarded a new regulatory consulting project by the Supervisory Body of Investments in Energy and Mines (OSINERGMIN) to modernise the operating procedure of the Additional Secondary Regulation Service of the Power System by implementing an Automatic Generation Control (AGC) system. The project is funded by the Programme for the Efficient and Sustainable Management of Peru's Energy Resources (known as PROSEMER in Spanish), an agreement between the Government of Peru and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and it includes defining the general regulatory framework for its launch as well as the alternatives for the future management of the demand that accompanies the Secondary Regulation.

The Secondary Regulation is the mechanism that works with the Primary Regulation and it guarantees that the frequency and net sum of the power exchanges in the electrical system maintain their established values in order to ensure stable and safe operations. In other words, it resolves imbalances derived from the operation of the Primary Regulation, which is responsible for compensating imbalances between the power that is generated and consumed.

The study that Indra is preparing will make it possible to define the steps that are required for evolving the current manual framework of the Secondary Regulation to an AGC programme, and to develop the necessary regulations for determining the full power reserve that is required, distributing this reserve amongst the various generation agents, monitoring the service in real time and processing its economic liquidation.

The launch of an Automatic Generation Control system is key for effectively addressing the plans that are being established in Peru in order to face the strong growth of energy demands--with 8% annual increases--and to provide incentives for renewable production that does not require management, such as aeolian, photovoltaic solar and heat energy.

As a result of this study, Indra experts will propose a new operating procedure to OSINERGMIN, and it will be published so it may receive feedback and references from the Committee for the Economic Management of the System as well as market agents (generators, transport companies and distributors).

Another aspect that will be studied is the possibility of implementing in Peru a Voluntary Load Management Service to support the AGC. This support, which is usually paid, is provided by consumers, primarily major industrial customers, and it enables the Market Operator to disconnect them and send power limitation guidelines in order to reinforce the system's Secondary Regulation.

Extensive international experience in regulatory consulting
The contract has a high strategic value since it is an important regulatory consulting reference for Indra in the field of secondary regulation and competitive markets for power systems.

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