Coordination Between Wind Power, Hydro Storage Facility and Conventional Generating Units According to the Annual Growth Load

Subject Areas : Renewable energy

Shahrokh Shojaeean ¹ , Hadi Akrami ²

1 - Assistant Professor / Azad University, Khomeini Shahr Branch
2 - MSc/ Islamic Azad University, Khomeini Shahr Branch

Received: 2012-11-12 Accepted : 2013-05-12 Published : 2013-06-01

Keywords: reliability, Wind power, LOLE, Monte Carlo, Hydroelectric storage,

Abstract :

Considering the growing trend of the consumption of the electric power and the global tendency to substitute new renewable sources of energy, this paper proposes a Monte Carlo based method to determine an optimal level of this change. Considering the limitation of the wind farms in continuous supply of electric power, hydrostatic power storage facilities are used beside wind farms so that the electric power could be stored and fed in a continuous flow into power systems. Due to the gradual exclusion of conventional generators and 5 percent annual load increments, LOLE index was used in order to calculate the amount of the  wind power and the capacity of the necessary power storage facility. To this end, LOLE index was calculated for the first year as the reference index for the estimation of the amount of wind power and the capacity of the storage facility in consequent years. For the upcoming years, calculations have been made to account for the gradual exclusion of conventional generators in proportion to load increments. The proposed method has been implemented and simulated on IEEE-RTS test system.