Llamas Terrés, ArmandoPerales-Martínez, FavioLezama-Lope, UrielSánchez-Meléndez, David2018-06-182018-06-182018-05-14http://hdl.handle.net/11285/630214The energy reform to the Mexican electricity sector established the creation of a Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) which seeks to optimize the production and supply of electric energy by minimizing costs and maximizing the social benefit of all market participants, taking care, at all times, of the reliability of the Electric Power System (EPS) A fundamental safety condition in an EPS is to maintain the equilibrium or constant balance between generation and demand, however, imbalances can occur as a consequence of forecast errors, forced outputs of generators, unexpected variations in demand and volatility in an unconventional generation such as solar and wind generation. These variations between generation and demand must be addressed quickly for which the Market Operator makes use of extra generation capacity known as Operating Reserve. The integration of renewable energies, photovoltaic and wind, besides being friendly to the environment, have multiple benefits in the electricity markets, one of them is the direct impact in reducing costs of generation of electric power, however, this type of technology has a high degree of uncertainty as it is directly dependent on weather conditions, making that the reliability of the EPS is compromised. Given a scenario of high penetration with these sources, adequate operational reserves must be available to deal with all possible operational scenarios. The WEM requires adequate price signals for the participants to indicate them when and where to invest in new generation capacity, also market mechanisms are required to dictate the correct price of the extra capacity as an operating reserve based on the benefit that it provides in the improvement of the reliability and safety of the EPS. The Reserve Demand Curves (RDC) are a dynamic mechanism for the evaluation of the adequate requirements of the reserve that the system requires due to they are obtained taking into account the different sources of uncertainty of the system that cause imbalances between generation and demand, besides they set an adequate price to the reserve based on its contribution in the improvement of the reliability of the system giving clear signals of the real condition of the system through its impact on the Local Marginal Price (LMP)  spaOpen Accesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/Tesis de maestríaprobabilidad de pérdida de cargaCurvas de Demanda de ReservaReserva operativaMercado eléctricomargen de generaciónIngeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas / Engineering & Applied Sciences