A Technique for Incorporating Wind Energy in Generating Capacity Adequacy Evaluation

摘要

Despite the increasing utilization of wind energy for electric power generation around the world, power system planners and engineers have paid relatively little attention to the reliability issues associated with this non-conventional energy source due to the absence of suitable modeling and evaluation techniques. This paper presents the models required to perform generating capacity adequacy evaluation of power systems including wind energy and energy storage using a sequential Monte Carlo simulation technique. The simulation technique is based on using hourly counted random events to mimic the operational history of a generating system, taking into account the chronological time correlated nature of the site resources and the failure and repair characteristics of the generating units in the system. The basic simulation process is described in this paper. A simple application of the developed models is also illustrated.