DESIGN EVALUATION VIA THE ITD TES PLATFORM

A key anticipated benefit from transiting to a Linked Swing‐Contract Market Design is a more level playing field for resource participation in centrally managed wholesale power market operations. This chapter conjectures that IDSOs, operating as linkage entities at the transmission and distribution (T–D) interfaces of integrated transmission and distribution (ITD) systems, could use swing contracts to offer ancillary services into wholesale power markets. It explains the basic features of the ITD TES Platform V2.0, a computational platform that has specifically been developed to permit the performance evaluation of IDSO‐managed bid‐based TES designs at design readiness levels (DRLs). The chapter briefly describes several illustrative test cases conducted by means of the ITD TES Platform V2.0 to evaluate the performance of the IDSO‐managed bid‐based TES design for households. Hereafter, these test cases are referred to as the ITD Household Test Cases.