Wind integration and the need for advanced decision support tools

Integration of wind power will require significant changes to traditional methods used for system planning and operations. In particular, the probabilistic nature of wind will require modifications of traditional unit commitment and economic dispatch tools. These modifications are needed to allow pl...

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Published in2011 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting pp. 1 - 7
Main Author Philbrick, C. R.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.07.2011
Subjects
Biological system modeling
Control systems
Load modeling
Planning
Power system control
Reliability
Stochastic processes
Uncertainty
Wind energy
Wind forecasting
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Summary:Integration of wind power will require significant changes to traditional methods used for system planning and operations. In particular, the probabilistic nature of wind will require modifications of traditional unit commitment and economic dispatch tools. These modifications are needed to allow planning studies to more accurately capture the impact that operation policies have on grid reliability and production cost. These modifications are also needed to better incorporate uncertainty in the decision support tools available to operators. In all time frames, the goal is to make effective use of flexible resources by considering appropriate tradeoffs between their costs and the capabilities they provide. This paper reviews modifications such as stochastic unit commitment and dynamic scheduling and the appropriate used of these capabilities in the presence of a range of optimization time horizons and operational constraints.
ISBN:9781457710001
1457710005
ISSN:1932-5517
DOI:10.1109/PES.2011.6039685