Status of Centralized Wind Power Forecasting in North America May 2009-May 2010

摘要

Wind energy development has increased dramatically over the last decade. Nearly 10,000 megawatts (MW) of wind came on-line in the United States in 2009, bringing the total U.S. installed wind capacity to over 35,000 MW. This represents nearly a twelve-fold increase in wind capacity since 2000. Installed wind capacity in Canada has more than tripled since 2005, from 684 MW to 2,369 MW as of the end of 2008. According to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), another 145 gigawatts (GW) of variable resources (mostly wind) are in various stages of planning. While not all of this capacity will come on-line, the amount of variable resource capacity that is under consideration in North America is quite significant.