Summary
Resource adequacy procurement is one of the most important issues in power system, which guarantees continuity of supplying the load. Independent system operator is responsible for resource adequacy procurement through capacity mechanisms. Capacity market is one of the most successful capacity mechanisms, where capacity providers sell their products in a competitive manner. Low investment costs, short construction periods, and more competition are factors that may justify using demand side management (DSM) resources in the capacity market. This paper aims to reduce reliability cost and mitigate the market power in the presence of renewables (wind generations and photovoltaics) by DSM resources. In the capacity market, reliability costs are calculated as sum of costs paid to the conventional generators and renewables proportionate to capacity price in their buses, and costs paid to consumers for participation in DSM programs proportionate to their share. The proposed method has been tested on IEEE 57‐bus test system, and the results have been reported.