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Modelling ancillary markets in 
the Norwegian energy system
Pernille Seljom & Kristina Haaskjold, Institute for Energy 
Technology (IFE), Norway
George Giannakidis, Greece
Evangelos Panos, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland
Pernille.Seljom@ife.no
IEA‐ETSAP 
Summer 2022 WS 24.05.2022 Teams
Motivation
• Increased need for flexibility
• Weather‐dependent electricity generation
• Electrification of end‐use & power‐to‐X
• Forecast errors in supply and demand
• Long‐term energy system models 
assume supply and demand are 
always met by energy market
• ”Perfect foresight”
• Hypothesis
• Perfect foresight underestimate need for 
flexible solutions
• Including reserve markets in energy system 
models can improve insights on long‐term 
flexibility needs
From: Unsplash by Jason Blackeye
From Unsplash by Nuno Marques
Illustration from Saint‐Pierre, A. and P. Mancarella, Active Distribution System Management: A Dual‐Horizon Scheduling 
Framework for DSO/TSO Interface Under Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016. 8: p. 1‐12.
Background
3
From: https://iea‐etsap.org/webinar/BS_Webinar_Presentation.pdf
Norwegian power market
4
1. Primary control reserves (5‐30 s): 1400 MW
Frequency Containment Reserve (FCR)
2. Secondary control reserves (2 min): 400 MW
Automatic Frequency Restoration Reserve (aFRR)
3. Tertiary control reserves (15 min) : 1700 MW
Manual Frequency Restoration Reserve (mFRR)
Dimensioning incidents: 1200 MW
Bottlenecks etc.: 500 MW
Expected to increase 50% in 2025
• Reserves corresponds to 14% of peak electricity demand of 2021
Norwegian energy system
5
• Electricity generation mainly based on hydropower
• 90% 2021
• Large water reservoirs: NO & SE: 50% of European 
capacity
• Cold climate → High demand for space hea ng 
• Historically electricity has been inexpensive
• Energy‐intensive industry 
• Electricity based heating system
• Large potential for onshore and offshore wind 
power
Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash
Photo by Jason Balckeye on Unsplash
IFE‐TIMES‐Norway
• Continuously updated and improved
• Recent updates on transport, end‐use flexibility & offshore 
wind power
• Model strength
• Captures interplay between sectors, technologies, 
energy carriers and emissions
• Detailed on end‐use; buildings, industry and transport
• Model specification
• Five regions according to spot price market 
• Model horizon: 2018‐ 2050 (2060)
• Time slices (base version): 96 = 4 seasons x 24 h
• Electricity trade between Norwegian regions & SE, DK, 
NL, DE & UK
• Hydrogen trade within Norway
Documentation:
https://ife.brage.unit.no/ife‐
xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/268168
5/IFE+2020+Documentation+of+IFE‐
TIMES+v1+%28ID+45458%29.pdf?sequ
ence=1
Reserve market modelling
• Reservation of capacity but not activation
• Reserves can either be downward or 
upward
• Documentation:
‐ https://iea‐etsap.org/projects/TIMES‐BS‐
Documentation.pdf
‐ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUZvJkPb
O8
‐ https://ieaetsap.org/webinar/BS_Webinar_Pres
entation.pdf
Steps of implementation:
1. Overview of reserve market 
2. Implementation in VEDA
• Exogeneous demand for reserves
• Endogenous demand for reserves based on 
forecast errors
• A combination 
• Evaluating results 
Recommend to calibrate cplex.opt
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=423dhngBwv
Y&feature=youtu.be
7
Model input ‐ Reserves
8
• FCR: Primary 5‐ 30 seconds,  aFRR: Secondary 2 min, mFRR: Tertiary: 15 min
• Assumptions
• Same reserve demand for positive and negative reserve for all types 
• Distribution key between regions corresponds to demand distribution
• National transmission capacity can be used to trade reserves
~TFM_INS
Attribute Cset_CN Other_Indexes Year NO1 NO2 NO3 NO4 NO5
|: Deterministic Exogenous Reserve Demand
BS_DEMDET FCR+ EXOGEN 2020 366 388 280 194 172
BS_DEMDET FCR- EXOGEN 2020 366 388 280 194 172
BS_DEMDET aFRR+ EXOGEN 2020 105 111 80 55 49
BS_DEMDET aFRR- EXOGEN 2020 105 111 80 55 49
BS_DEMDET mFRR+ EXOGEN 2020 445 471 340 235 209
BS_DEMDET mFRR- EXOGEN 2020 445 471 340 235 209
BS_DEMDET mFRR+ EXOGEN 2025 667 706 510 353 314
BS_DEMDET mFRR- EXOGEN 2025 667 706 510 353 314
1400 MW
400 MW
1700 MW
2550 MW
Model input ‐ Reserve provision
• Today hydropower provides all primary and 
secondary reserves. For tertiary, also large energy‐
intensive industries contribute. 
• Anticipated more future end‐use participation 
Assumed  possible participation options: 
Primary (FCR) 
• Regulated hydropower
Secondary (aFRR)
• Regulated hydropower
• 10% of international electricity trade cap
• Data centers* (only downwards)
• PEM hydrogen production*
• Electric boilers* 
• Energy intensive industry* (only downwards)
* From 2025 
9
Cost of being without electricity for one hour (Home et al., 2020).
Tertiary (mFRR) = aFRR  +
• Stationary batteries
• Flexible electric heating of hot water
• To do: Flexible EV charging + + 
Results: Reserve contribution secondary (aFRR) 2050
10
Up Down Up Down
2030 2050
Trade 0 0 0 0
Hydrogen 0 0 6 ‐60
Electric boiler 0 ‐292 7 ‐235
Hydropower 400 ‐108 387 ‐106
‐400
‐300
‐200
‐100
0
100
200
300
400
Contribution to aFRR, MW
Hydropower Electric boiler Hydrogen Trade
Result: Contribution to tertiary (mFRR) winter 2050
11
‐3000
‐2000
‐1000
0
1000
2000
3000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Reservation to mFRR winter 2050, MW
Hydro ‐ Boiler ‐ Bat. ‐ H2 ‐ Hydro + Boiler + Bat. + H2 + Trade
Reserve markets give marginally more regulated 
hydropower and lower solar PV   
12
Base Ancil. Base Ancil. Base Ancil.
2030 2040 2050
Solar power 10.0 7.5 28.5 28.4 30.9 30.8
Wind power 3.7 3.7 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0
Run‐of‐river hydro 2.2 2.2 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8
Regulated hydro 0.3 0.6 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
New eletcricity generation capacity, MW
Figure: New electricity generation capacity after 2020
1
3
Reserve markets marginally increase battery capacity
Base Ancil. Base Ancil. Base Ancil.
2030 2040 2050
Residential 0.17 0.20 0.76 0.76 0.65 0.73
Commercial 0.07 0.07 0.44 0.44 0.33 0.34
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
1.00
1.20
1.40
Stationary battery capacity, GWh
Figure: New battery capacity after 2020
14
Reserve markets increase hydrogen and district heat storage
Base Ancil. Base Ancil. Base Ancil.
2030 2040 2050
Hydrogen 0.0 0.0 0.1 2.2 14.3 16.2
District heat 1.5 2.7 2.4 4.4 3.0 4.4
0
5
10
15
20
25
Heat and hydrogen storage, GWh
Figure: New storage capacity after 2020
15
Reserve markets influence hydrogen investments & operation 
0.00
0.50
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
3.50
Hydrogen production, GWh/h 
Base Ancil
0
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
4
5
Base Ancil. Base Ancil. Base Ancil.
2030 2040 2050
H2 prod capacity, GW
ALK‐Cent PEM‐Cent PEM‐Dist
Figure: Production from PEM‐Cent. Winter 2050
Reserve markets highly impact new national  transmission 
capacity
16
Base Ancil. Base Ancil. Base Ancil.
2030 2040 2050
NO3‐NO5 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 26.5 100.0
NO1‐NO3 0.0 0.0 0.0 64.0 0.0 100.0
NO1‐NO2 0 114 0 354 0 700
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
New transmission capacity, MW
Summary and conclusions
• Hypothesis: Impact of reserve market is lower for Norway with flexible hydropower 
than other countries
• Explicit modelling of ancillary services:
1. Decrease cost‐competitiveness of solar power 
2. Increase cost‐competitiveness:
• Flexible hydropower
• Stationary batteries
• Hydrogen storage
• District heat production & storage
• National transmission expansion
• Further work: Power market input, Partly endogenous reserves, Flexible EV charging
17
We welcome cooperation with ETSAP partners on ancillary services
Pernille.Seljom@ife.no
18
1
9
Reserve market
• From: https://iea‐etsap.org/webinar/BS_Webinar_Presentation.pdf
• Several ways to model ancillary services, 
e.g.
• define demand for primary, 
secondary, tertiary resources in MW 
per spot price region. 
• Endogenously define demand for 
balancing services by indicating 
forecast errors.

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