Ph.D. Dissertation
M. A. Ortega-Vazquez, "Optimizing the Spinning Reserve Requirements," Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2006.

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M.Sc. Thesis
M. A. Ortega-Vazquez "Modelado y Simulación Dinámica de Esquemas de Cogeneración," M.Sc. Thesis, Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico, 2001.

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Solutions Manual
M. A. Ortega-Vazquez and D. S. Kirschen, "Solutions Manual: Fundamentals of Power System Economics," John Wiley & Sons, 2005 & 2019.

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Book Chapter
M. A. Ortega-Vazquez and M. Kintner-Meyer, "Electric Vehicles and the Electric Grid," Handbook of Clean Energy Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

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DynADOR
Dynamic Assessment and Determination of Operating Reserves: The Dynamic Assessment and Determination of Operating Reserve (DynADOR) is a software tool that is used by balancing area authorities, control area authorities, and power system operators. The tool evaluates historical load, variable renewable energy resources, scheduling parameters, and information on specific reserve definitions/products to compute what the historical operating reserve needs were for every forecasting error. Based on this, it produces a statistical characterization of the forecast errors to the parametrize reserves for future operating conditions. Such parametrization can be done based on risk criteria (expectation of reserve shortages), or on probabilistic methods that identify dominant explanatory variables for correlation. The tool can also use probabilistic forecast to account for uncertainty captured by weather variables that is expected in the near future, and that may have not been captured on historical datasets. DynADOR is a mature tool that has been applied in a variety of contexts by utilities and system operators to determine reserves in actual system operation, cost/benefit studies and comparison against alternatives (e.g., utilization storage resources), determination of reserve requirements in future generation matrices (deep penetrations of renewables), among others. The DynADOR tool is a recipient of 2024 EPRI’s Chauncey Award.

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