Calculating wind integration costs : separating wind energy value from integration cost impacts / Michael Milligan and Brendan Kirby.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Milligan, Michael R.

Contributor:

Kirby, Brendan

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)

Series:

NREL/TP ; 550-46275.

Technical report ; NREL/TP-550-46275

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distributed resources (Electric utilities)--Costs.

Distributed resources (Electric utilities).

Wind power--Economic aspects.

Wind power.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Golden, Colo. : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [2009]

Summary:

Over the past several years, there has been substantial progress in understanding the impact that wind energy has on power system operation and costs (Smith, et. al., 2007). Because of wind's variability and uncertainty, there has been widespread interest in quantifying the increase in ancillary services required to integrate wind over various time scales. While the scope and sophistication of wind integration studies has increased substantially, methods to estimate integration cost for wind often result in the mixing of value and cost. This arises because of the proxy resource assumptions that are often used in the reference case with no wind. In this paper, we explore this issue by first developing a simple example, and applying prices from the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO). We also investigate the impact on ramping of various proxy resources, and then look at some alternative proxy resources proposed by EnerNex as part of the Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study (EWITS).

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed August 6, 2009).

"July 2009."

Includes bibliographical references (page 24).

Other Format:

Paper version: Milligan, Michael R. Calculating wind integration costs.

OCLC:

429530992