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Ancillary Service Analysis
for Deregulated Electricity Market

Encotech (under contract with EPRISolutions) has developed, implemented, and reported on methodologies required to determine your fixed and variable costs of providing Ancillary Services. (They can be up to 10% of operating cost) EPRI Solutions, in alliance with Encotech now offers this service to all electric power producers.

Encotech has completed a two-year EPRI contract to develop and demonstrate measurement of Ancillary Service according to NERC recommendations. Proven methods are available to become a certified supplier and to measure the quantity delivered:

  • Reactive Supply and Voltage Control from a Generation Source

  • Contingency Reserve - Supplemental

  • Regulation

  • Load Following

  • Contingency Reserve - Spinning

  • System Black Start Capability

EPRISolutions and Encotech provide expertise:

  • To analyze the cost of ancillary services

  • To perform measurements of ancillary service delivered

  • To develop contracts on supply of ancillary services

  • To demonstrate that the contracted services have been supplied