Wind energy and power system operations [electronic resource] : a review of wind integration studies to date / Jennifer DeCesaro and Kevin Porter, Exeter Associates, Inc.
Imprint
Golden, CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [2009]
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Note
Title from title screen (NREL, viewed Jan. 20, 2010).
"December 2009."
Summary
This paper provides an overview of the challenges associated with wind integration and summarizes the findings of the wind integration studies conducted over the course of the past five years. We begin with an overview of the approximate time frames used in grid operations. We then describe how wind integration studies are conducted, discuss the results on wind integration costs and grid impacts from these grid integration studies, and assess some of the grid planning and operation changes that may be necessary to incorporate higher levels of wind generation. We close with several conclusions.
