, control, and transmit electricity in support of the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery … importance of ancillary services for both bulk-power reliability and support of commercial transactions. Balancing generation and …

include capacity credit, regulation impacts and costs, and preliminary load-following impacts via the supplemental energy …

Wind is the fastest growing source for electricity in the United States. During 2001, U.S. wind power plant … installations are expected to increase by 1,850 megawatts (MW), resulting in a total installed capacity of about 4,400 MW. The … allowing higher electricity rates that may increase the rate of wind plant development. Power shortages, natural gas price …

Peak power demand issues have come to the fore recently because of the California electricity crisis. Uncertainties … surrounding the reliability of electric power systems in restructured markets as well as security worries are the latest reasons … times associated with building new capacity, the lack of price response in the face of time-varying costs, the large …

Over the past several years, there has been considerable development and application of wind forecasting models. The … reserves, which involves scheduling additional capacity to guard against shortfalls. In a recent paper, Strbac and Kirschen[1 …], neither of these papers accounts for the wind forecast in the reliability calculation. That omission is rectified here. For …

The goal of this work is to create an integrated framework for forecasting the adoption of distributed energy resources … (DER), both by electricity customers and by the various institutions within the industry itself, and for evaluating the … effect of this adoption on the power system, particularly on the overall reliability and quality of electrical service to the …

model-based scenario, in which wind energy provides 20% of the U.S. electricity demand in 2030. The report discusses a set … already have a high penetration of wind power (i.e., in the range of 7 to 20% of electricity consumption in countries such as … Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Denmark). The rapid growth in installed wind power capacity is expected to continue in the …

performance model, and wind speed forecasting accuracy is examined. The utility analyzed in the study was the Los Angeles … forecasting accuracy on utility operation and production costs. Wind speed data from San Gorgonio Pass, California during 1979 are … used to estimate wind turbine performance using four different simulation methods. (LEW) …

Responsive load is the most underutilized reliability resource available to the power system today. It is currently not … Electric Reliability Council (NERC), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC …), New York State Reliability Council (NYSRC), and New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) rules are beginning to …

-period, Geographic Information System (GIS), and linear programming model of capacity expansion in the electric sector of the United …