Identification of Parallel Flows in Congestion Management with Multiple Electricity Markets

Parallel flow is a direct result of interconnected system operation. In this paper, the methodologies to calculate parallel flows for both market and non-market entities including market flows are investigated in order to identify the cause of potential loop flow issue in the congestion management process. In an interconnected system, the parallel flow identification is a complex issue because transmission congestion can be affected by all the entities of the system. To deal with it, the impact of market operation on loop flow is analyzed through market flow. In addition, for a system consisting of both market and non-market entities, the parallel flow due to the market flow methodology is investigated in details. To mitigate the loop flow, we propose to change the method to calculate the transaction impacts using generation-to-load instead of generation-to-generation. The numerical results on a simplified Eastern Interconnection system are described to demonstrate.