Renewable energy, particularly wind power, has increased dramatically over the past two decades. In the Pacific Northwest, the power system has accommodated a large amount of new wind power. The variability of wind power has introduced many challenges, requiring additional reserve generation to be available to maintain system stability. The...
This paper demonstrates the use of model-based predictive control for energy
storage systems to improve the dispatchability of wind power plants. Large-scale wind
penetration increases the variability of power flow on the grid, thus increasing reserve
requirements. Large energy storage systems collocated with wind farms can improve
dispatchability of the...