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Under electricity market operation, the competitiveness of wind power generation may be reduced because of the stochastic nature of the wind resource, which often results in increased regulation costs. The negative impact associated to the stochastic nature of the wind resource may be reduced by coupling the wind farm with energy storage facilities, thus constituting a virtual power plant. In this...
The main development trend of wind power generation system is large offshore wind farms with grid connection. Due to extraordinarily high investment, many technical issues yet to be solved and limited experience, the risk of building offshore wind power generation system is always very high. The study presented in this paper takes a view of the effect of offshore wind farm topology on its reliability...
It is recognized today that short-term (up to 2-3 days ahead) probabilistic forecasts of wind power provide forecast users with a paramount information on the uncertainty of expected wind generation. When considering different areas covering a region, they are produced independently, and thus neglect the interdependence structure of prediction errors, induced by movement of meteorological fronts,...
A Markovian approach already developed in a previous paper by some of the authors to evaluate the energy production and power availability of a wind turbine is utilized to size a hybrid wind-diesel stand alone system. The wind turbine power time variability is taken into account by means of a discrete reduced number of contiguous power classes, each corresponding to an opportune range of values, starting...
This paper reports new results in adopting entropy concepts to the training of mappers such as neural networks to perform wind power prediction as a function of wind characteristics (mainly speed and direction) in wind parks connected to a power grid. Renyi's Entropy is combined with a Parzen Windows estimation of the error pdf to form the basis of three criteria (MEE, MCC and MEEF) under which neural...
More and more wind power is being integrated into power grids in recent years. However, due to its intermittent characteristic, it is usually difficult to determine the appropriate penetration level to ensure a specified reliability requirement. For this purpose, the proper calculation of wind power capacity credit is of particular importance which is useful in both operations and planning stages...
There are two fundamentally different forms of uncertainty in power system reliability assessment. Aleatory uncertainty arises because the study system can potentially behave in many different ways. The component failure and repair processes are random and create variability known as aleatory uncertainty. There are also limitations in assessing the actual parameters of the key elements in a reliability...
Better modelling and forecasting of very short-term power fluctuations at large offshore wind farms may significantly enhance control and management strategies of their power output. The paper introduces a new methodology for modelling and forecasting such very short-term fluctuations. The proposed methodology is based on a Markov-switching autoregressive model with time-varying coefficients. An advantage...
Renewable energy grid connection is hampered by transmission capacity limitations and public opposition to new transmission development. This paper presents a methodology to find the optimal positions on an existing transmission system network to connect 'firm' wind capacity to reach desired renewable energy penetration targets in a secure, least-cost manner. The methodology accounts for geographical...
Wind energy on a power system alters the unit commitment and dispatch problem, as it adds a stochastic element due to the uncertainty of wind power forecasts. By explicitly taking into account the stochastic nature of wind power, it is expected that better schedules should be produced, thereby reducing costs on the system. This paper compares a stochastically optimised unit commitment and dispatch...
Uncertain wind power forecasts is a disadvantage in an electricity market where the majority of the trading is performed several hours before the actual delivery. This paper presents a model which can be used to study how changes in the trading arrangement-in particular changing the delay time between closure of the spot market and the delivery period or changing the imbalance pricing system-would...
Considerable research has been devoted on the development of decision-making models suitable for tackling decision problems integrating some amount of uncertainty. However, such approaches are either problem-specific, either too general to suit certain problems. In this paper we propose an approach for performing decision-making under uncertainty suitable for problems in which decisions must be made...
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