Intermittent Versus Dispatchable Power Sources: An Integrated Competitive Assessment

Electric Power from Competitive Sources

Coupling PV and CAES Power Plants to Transform Intermittent PV Electricity into a Dispatchable Electricity Source

James Mason1*,y, Vasilis Fthenakis, Ken Zweibel, Tom Hansen and Thomas Nikolakakis Renewable Energy Research Institute, 52 Columbia Street, Farmingdale, NY 17735, USA Center for Life Cycle Analysis, Columbia University, and Director of PV EH&S Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA Institute for the Analysis of Solar Energy, George Washington University, 2121 I St...

Robust Unit Commitment with Dispatchable Wind Power

7 The increasing penetration of uncertain generation such as wind and solar in power systems imposes new challenges to the Unit Commitment (UC) problem, one of the most critical tasks in power systems operations. The two most common approaches to address these challenges — stochastic and robust optimization — have drawbacks that restrict their application to real-world systems. This paper demon...

An Assessment of Using Integrated Information Sources in Clinical Environments

This paper reports on continuing work being done at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield UK, which aims to provide a system where all reference and patient data are available within a single user interface – the Web. Specifically, the work is investigating the application and evaluation of the integration of Web based resources into the clinician’s working environment within an evolving ...

On the Quantitatively Characterization of Intermittent Power Sources Uncertainty

This paper designs a statistical quantification towards the intermittent power uncertainty in power systems. A negative-exponential forecast uncertainty function is constructed to represent the relationship between the statistics of forecast error of a single intermittent power source and time advance. Subsequently, other kinds of statistical functions are proposed to characterize the statistic...