The limited supply of fossil fuels, increasing demand for energy, and concern about the human environmental impact cannot ensure sustainability under the circumstances of existing fossil fuelled power plants. Today, wind technology is seen as the most prospective solution of alternative and sustainable sources of energy. However, its large-scale integration requires fundamental changes in the planning and operation of power systems as well as the management and attitudes towards different market and power system participants. Only synergy between consumers, producers and system operators will overcome the challenges faced with large-scale wind integration.

Chapter Contents:

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Energy policy
• 4.3 Technology overview and prospective changes in the power grid
• 4.3.1 Overview of wind power plant technologies
• 4.3.2 Impact of electric transportation and electric vehicles
• 4.3.3 Impact of consumers
• 4.3.3.1 Demand side response
• 4.3.3.2 Aggregated prosumers
• 4.4 Technical and economic impacts of large-scale wind integration
• 4.4.1 Technical challenges
• 4.4.2 Impacts on existing power plant economics and electricity market
• 4.4.3 System frequency regulation and increasing wind capacity impacts on regulating reserves
• 4.5 Measures to support large-scale wind integration
• 4.5.1 Aggregated thermal storages for balancing of power generation forecast errors
• 4.5.2 Pumped hydro energy storage for balancing of power generation forecast errors
• 4.5.3 Demand side management for providing balancing power
• 4.5.3.1 EV charging as alternative storage for RE
• 4.5.3.2 Industrial consumers as power generation balancing entity
• 4.6 Conclusion
• References

Inspec keywords: power markets; sustainable development; power generation planning; wind power plants; power system management

Other keywords: power system participant; large-scale wind power integration; power system planning; power system operation; sustainable energy sources; wind technology; fossil-fuelled power plants; human environmental impact; market participant; sustainability

Subjects: Power system management, operation and economics; Power system planning and layout; Wind power plants