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Wind Power Balancing

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Wind power balancing considers the challenge to keep a continuous balance between total production and total consumption in a power system. The varying wind speed introduces special considerations concerning how to keep this balance in an efficient way. This article is mainly focused on wind power as a part of a larger power system.

Introduction

In a power system there is always a challenge to keep the balance between total production and total consumption. This challenge has existed ever since the first power systems were installed more than 100 years ago. Since 1970 the amount of wind power has grown from a marginal source to levels of more than 50% during some situations in certain parts of some systems. This increase is expected to continue, which means new challenges and requirement of new methods to keep the requested balance in an efficient way.

This chapter provides an overview about the challenges that are faced with the integration of large-scale...

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Abbreviations

Primary control:

The instant reaction in a power system to keep the continuous balance between production and consumption.

Secondary control:

Normally automatic changes in the production system in order to release used primary controlled units.

Control area:

A change in production or consumption in a certain control area will cause an automatic response from the secondary controlled units in the same control area.

Regulating capacity:

The power plants and consumers which can change their production or consumption when requested in order to keep the balance.

Balancing market:

A market where regulating capacity can be bid in and the best offers are then used when balancing is needed.

Balancing reserves:

Regulating capacity that is bid into a balancing market.

Balancing area:

A change in production or consumption in a certain balancing area will cause an automatic or manual response from the regulating capacity in the same balancing area.

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  1. Royal Institute of Technology, Electric Power Systems, Teknikringen 33, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lennart Söder

  2. Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT, VTT, 02044, Finland

    Hannele Holttinen

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    Martin Kaltschmitt

  2. Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Nickolas J. Themelis

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    Lucien Y. Bronicki

  5. Royal Institute of Technology, Electric Power Systems, Stockholm, Sweden

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  6. Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, School of Ocean And Earth Science And Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Luis A. Vega

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Söder, L., Holttinen, H. (2013). Wind Power Balancing. In: Kaltschmitt, M., Themelis, N.J., Bronicki, L.Y., Söder, L., Vega, L.A. (eds) Renewable Energy Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5820-3_85

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