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Loads Providing Ancillary Services: Review of International Experience

April 30, 2007

U.S. Department of Energy, Ernesto Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Grayson Heffner, Charles Goldman, Brendan Kirby, Michael Kintner-Meyer

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This study examines the arrangements for and experiences of end-use loads providing ancillary services (AS) in five electricity markets: Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), the Nordic market, and the ERCOT and PJM markets in the United States (US).

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