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This paper proposes a 24-h ahead unit commitment for a diesel-photovoltaic (PV)-battery system using mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) to minimize the operating cost which includes the power storage system (PSS) in the reserve capacity. Considering the Kinmen island’s winter peak load case of 20 MW, and summer peak load case of 60 MW, a 24-h schedule for the diesel-PV-battery system island system for these two scenarios was optimized that allows the PSS to perform both as an additional reserve capacity and peak-shaving auxiliary device. The results show that the addition of PSS in the dispatch decision can allow the flexibility of the systems, especially in the reserve allocation, to up to twice the value of the PSS capacity. In this way, the PSS reduces the early startup and late shutdown of high-cost units while maintaining the system reserve, thereby, reducing the operating cost of the system.