The Unit Commitment Problem (UCP) is an important category of power planning problems. The purpose of UCP is to determine when to start up and shut down the generator units and how to dispatch the committed units to meet the electricity demands, ancillary services requirements and security constraints. In this paper, we improve the traditional Lagrange Relaxation (LR) approach and analyze the e...

The variability of wind and solar energy technologies is perceived as a major obstacle to employing otherwise abundant renewable energy resources. Based on the available geographically dispersed data for the Western U.S. (excluding Alaska), we analyze the extent to which the geographic diversity of these resources can offset their variability. First, we determine the best match to loads that ca...

The fluctuating nature of wind power introduces several challenges to reliable operation of power system. With high wind power penetration, conventional power plants are displaced and wind speed fluctuations introduce large power imbalances which lead to power system frequency control and operational problems. This paper analyses the impact of wind power in the frequency control of power system...

This work analyses the configuration and operation principles of hybrid wind-hydro power plants with pumped storage integrated into autonomous electric grid systems, in order to support high wind energy penetration. The plant consists of wind generation units, combined with a pumped-hydro storage system. It operates on a daily basis, storing the surplus wind production by pumping water in an el...

Although significant private investment is absorbed in different sectors of power systems, transmission sector is still suffering from appropriate private investment. This is because of the pricing policies of transmission services, tariffs, and especially for investment risks. Investment risks are due to the uncertain behaviour of power systems that discourage investors to invest in the transm...

With the expansion of wind farm installations in most countries all over the world, the power generation has already significantly influenced on the stability and security of the power grid after gridconnection. Wind power forecasting is an effective method for guarantees stability of the power output from wind farm. This paper proposed an improved GM(1,1) based prediction method, and focuses o...

This study investigates the feasibility of using a data-driven optimization approach to determine the coordinated control actions of wind turbines that maximize the total wind farm power production. Conventionally, for a given wind condition, an individual wind turbine maximizes its own power production without taking into consideration the conditions of other wind turbines. Under this greedy c...

The Western Wind and Solar Integration Study (WWSIS) is one of the world’s largest regional integration studies to date. This paper discusses the creation of the wind dataset that will be the basis for assessing the operating impacts and mitigation options due to the variability and uncertainty of wind power on the utility grids. The dataset is based on output from a mesoscale numerical weather...