  The growing penetration of renewable generation in distribution networks,
primarily deployed by end-use electricity customers, is changing the
traditional load profile and inevitably makes supply-load balancing more
challenging for grid operators. Leveraging the potential flexibility of
existing microgrids, that is to help with supply-load balance locally, is a
viable solution to cope with this challenge and mitigate existing net load
variability and intermittency in distribution networks. This paper discusses
this timely topic and determines the microgrid value of ramping based on its
available reserve using a cost-benefit analysis. To this end, a microgrid
ramping-oriented optimal scheduling model is developed and tested through
numerical simulations to prove the effectiveness and the merits of the proposed
approach in microgrid ramping valuation.
