As electricity markets undergo restructuring, it is becoming apparent that the responsibility for providing power and the ancillary services associated with power generation is being allocated to different entities. Former electric utilities enter spot markets and sign power-delivery contracts, and generating companies bid or otherwise offer electricity for sale. Operating units, such as Region...

The research is financed by the Chinese national 863 plan projects. No. 2006AA05Z409 Abstract Wind power generation potential of Guangzhou has been analyzed based on the wind speed data collected in the recent 30 years. In order to make the results more accurate, the Weibull distribution function is introduced and the two parameters can be identified by CAD method together with local weather da...

In this paper, an optimal scheduling of thermal and wind power plants is presented by using a stochastic programming approach to cover the uncertainties of the forecasted generation of wind farms. Uncertainties related to wind forecast error, consequently wind generation outage power and also system load demand are modeled through scenario generation. Then, with regard to day-ahead and real-tim...

The power system requirements for wind power mainly depend on the power system configuration, the installed wind power capacity, and how the wind power production varies. Wind resources vary on every time scale: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. On all these time scales, the varying wind resources affect the power system. An analysis of this impact will be based on the geographic...

Renewable energy sources i.e.,energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, hydro power, geothermal and ocean resources are considered as a technological option for generating clean energy. But the energy generated from solar and wind is much less than the production by fossil fuels, however, electricity generation by utilizing PV cells and wind turbine increased rapidly in recent years. This pap...

Wind power is among the most actively developing distributed generation (DG) technology. Majority of the wind power based DG technologies employ wind turbine induction generators (WTIG) instead of synchronous generators, for the technical advantages like: reduced size, increased robustness, lower cost, and increased electromechanical damping. However, dynamic changes of wind speed make the amou...

The renewable energy sources have increased significantly due to environmental issues and fossil fuels elevated cost. Integration of renewable energy sources to utility grid depends on the scale of power generation. Large scale power generations are connected to transmission systems where as small scale distributed power generation is connected to distribution systems. There are certain challen...

When integrated to the power system, large wind farms pose stability and control issues. A thorough study is needed to identify the potential problems and to develop measures to mitigate them. Although integration of high levels of wind power into an existing transmission system does not require a major redesign, it necessitates additional control and compensating equipment to enable recovery f...

The wind energy conversion systems when operate in weak grid or in isolated mode may cause power quality problems due to variation in wind speed and other circuit conditions. To improve the power quality of wind generation system a wind-diesel hybrid system is proposed in this paper. The power quality of the system is improved by controlling the excitation and input power of the synchronous gen...

Dispersed Generation (DG) has impacts on power system planning and operation, and these impacts must be taken into consideration. This paper deals with the very short-term (VST) steady state analysis of a distribution system with wind farms. Several forecasting methods of wind power are taken into account in order to obtain reliable input data for the VST steadystate analysis. Numerical applica...