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Areas

Areas are one of the fundamental objects in Antares alongside links. Areas correspond to nodes on the map and can be tied to a physical aggregated area. However, they can represent much more in advanced modelisation.

The equilibrium between supply and demand of electricity must be satisfied at the node level. That's why you can attach to a map:

Properties

Unsupplied (€/MWh)

float Average cost of failure for each area of the study (or value of lost of load VOLL).

Tip

It is recommended that the unsupplied energy cost is much larger than the cost of the most expensive generating plant of the area, otherwise such plant will never be activated.

Spilled (€/MWh)

float Average cost of spillage for each area of the study.

Info

Even if this parameter is fixed to 0 €/MWh, no energy will be shed needlessly.

Spread unsupplied (€/MWh)

float Spread on the cost of failure.

Spread supplied (€/MWh)

float Spread on the cost of spillage.

Non dispatch. power

bool Whether spillage can be performed from must-run production.

Dispatch. hydropower

bool Whether spillage can be performed from hydro production.

Other dispatch. power

bool Whether spillage can be performed from thermal production

Adequacy patch

enum Allow to set the integration or not of the zone in the adequacy patch.

  • outside
  • inside
  • virtual

Equations

Info

You can check the section Balance between load and generation from the Optimization problem page for details about the equations for a give node.

2 hourly variables are created per node:

  • The hourly spillage power
  • The hourly unsupplied power

4 parameters are created per node :

  • Average unsupplied energy cost
  • Average spilled energy cost
  • Spread unsupplied energy cost
  • Spread spilled energy cost