Exploring the Cellular Base Station Dispatch Potential Towards Power System Frequency Regulation

Cellular Base Stations (BSs) are equipped with backup batteries. These batteries have some spare capacity over time while maintaining the power supply reliability, so they are potential flexible resources for power systems. This letter exhibits the insight to explore the BS dispatch potential towards power system frequency regulation. For each BS, the feasible dispatch boundaries of participating in frequency regulation are estimated. Then a framework is proposed to coordinate BSs to provide frequency support. By incorporating massive distributed BSs, the power system frequency performances can be improved.