We develop a unit commitment and economic dispatch model to estimate the operation costs and the air emissions externality costs attributable to new electric vehicle electricity demand under controlled vs uncontrolled charging schemes. We focus our analysis on the PJM Interconnection and use scenarios that characterize (1) the most recent power plant fleet for which sufficient data are availabl...

Wind speed forecast is essential in wind energy conversion system and may fail to operate power plant at non optimal region if not properly forecasted. This paper focuses the short term wind speed forecasting using conventional statistical method and artificial neural networks such as back propagation network (BPN), generalized regression neural network (GRNN) and radial basis function networks...

The growing demand for wind power has resulted in a market that naturally favors development of new wind farms over improvement of their performance. A chain of opportunities for performance improvement of any wind energy project parallels the supply chain activities. Raising energy and transportation costs are a complicating factor of the performance improvement projects. One of the weakest po...

This paper proposes a new control strategy to consider the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) wind generation contribution in frequency control and regulation of multi-area interconnected power system when the wind power is the main generation of one area. Based on frequency requirements and system conditions, the proposed control approach determines whether to switch the wind generation int...

This article presents a method to adjust the elements of small wind power plant speed characterized by highest annual level energy. Tests were carried out on basis distributions at three locations. The standard range speeds was reduced that resulting from in these construction generators and their excitation adapted characteristics turbines. results obtained for designed plants compared with th...

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This paper provides a model-free approach based on the Multi-Resolution Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (MR-SPSA) for maximizing power production of wind farms. The main advantage is that the method based on MR-SPSA can achieve fast controller tuning without any plant model by exploiting the information of the wind farm configuration such as turbines location and wind directi...

In this paper presents the mathematical model of hydrothermal processes in thermal power plant with different wind direction scenarios in the water reservoir, which is solved by the Navier Stokes and temperature equations for an incompressible fluid in a stratified medium. Numerical algorithm based on the method of splitting by physical parameters. Three dimensional Poisson equation is solved w...

The significant penetration rate of wind turbines in power systems made some challenges in the operation of the systems such as large-scale power fluctuations induced by wind farms. Gas-fired plants with fast starting ability and high ramping can better handle natural uncertainties of wind power compared to other traditional plants. Therefore, the integration of electrical and natural gas syste...