Valuing Wind Generation on Integrated Power Systems

Wind powered is a combination of economic incentives, and the need to address global warming. The economic consequences of the implementation of utility planners. This book provides utility analysts and regulators to understand the value of modern power systems.

Guiding the reader through the steps of understanding and valuation in the US. These include utilities that are dominated by independent system operators (ISOs). Outlined here is a basic study in a winding study, with enough detail. Descriptions of the studies conducted by other utilities are also provided, explaining their specific approaches. Finally, it includes a short section on power systems.

. Reviews operating challenges to power systems
. Outlines alternative approaches to quantifying the systems
. Explains how economic analysses of wind generation are competently performed
. Describes how to represent wind generation in the future
. Reviews methods used by some select utility companies around the United States
. Touches on key European issues involving relatively high levels of wind generation
. Written at the level of the utility planner, assuming a basic understanding of the generators and elementary statistics

• Outlines the role of wind forecasting in wind valuation studies


• Evaluates the importance of estimating wind generation to meet peak demand


• Researches how the market structure of wind energy


• Discusses power systems that utilize relatively large fractions of wind power


• Highlights of the wind generation

Introduction; Overview of System-Wide Impacts of Wind Generation on Power Systems; General Approaches is Valuing Wind on Power Systems; Developing Useful Wind Generation Data; Characterization of Wind in Generation Dispatch Models; Power System Incremental Reserve Requirements; Wind Forecasting; Power System Dispatch Models and Valuing Wind Generation; Wind Integration Costs; Wind Power Contribution to Meeting Peak Demand; Effects of Markets on Wind Integration Costs; Reducing Wind Integration Costs; Review of Selected Wind Integration Studies; Considerations for High Penetration Wind Systems