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Title: Modelling renewable electric resources: A case study of wind

Abstract

The central issue facing renewables in the integrated resource planning process is the appropriate assessment of the value of renewables to utility systems. This includes their impact on both energy and capacity costs (avoided costs), and on emissions and environmental impacts, taking account of the reliability, system characteristics, interactions (in dispatch), seasonality, and other characteristics and costs of the technologies. These are system-specific considerations whose relationships may have some generic implications. In this report, we focus on the reliability contribution of wind electric generating systems, measured as the amount of fossil capacity they can displace while meeting the system reliability criterion. We examine this issue for a case study system at different wind characteristics and penetration, for different years, with different system characteristics, and with different modelling techniques. In an accompanying analysis we also examine the economics of wind electric generation, as well as its emissions and social costs, for the case study system. This report was undertaken for the {open_quotes}Innovative IRP{close_quotes} program of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is based on work by both Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Tellus Institute, including America`s Energy Choices and the UCS Midwest Renewables Project.

Authors:
; ; ;  [1]
  1. Tellus Institute, Boston, MA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
125372
Report Number(s):
ORNL/Sub-93-03370
ON: DE96002149; TRN: 95:008132
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-84OR21400
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jul 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
17 WIND ENERGY; WIND POWER PLANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; ECONOMICS; RELIABILITY; VARIATIONS; VELOCITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Citation Formats

Bernow, S, Biewald, B, Hall, J, and Singh, D. Modelling renewable electric resources: A case study of wind. United States: N. p., 1994. Web. doi:10.2172/125372.
Bernow, S, Biewald, B, Hall, J, & Singh, D. Modelling renewable electric resources: A case study of wind. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/125372
Bernow, S, Biewald, B, Hall, J, and Singh, D. 1994. "Modelling renewable electric resources: A case study of wind". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/125372. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/125372.
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abstractNote = {The central issue facing renewables in the integrated resource planning process is the appropriate assessment of the value of renewables to utility systems. This includes their impact on both energy and capacity costs (avoided costs), and on emissions and environmental impacts, taking account of the reliability, system characteristics, interactions (in dispatch), seasonality, and other characteristics and costs of the technologies. These are system-specific considerations whose relationships may have some generic implications. In this report, we focus on the reliability contribution of wind electric generating systems, measured as the amount of fossil capacity they can displace while meeting the system reliability criterion. We examine this issue for a case study system at different wind characteristics and penetration, for different years, with different system characteristics, and with different modelling techniques. In an accompanying analysis we also examine the economics of wind electric generation, as well as its emissions and social costs, for the case study system. This report was undertaken for the {open_quotes}Innovative IRP{close_quotes} program of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is based on work by both Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Tellus Institute, including America`s Energy Choices and the UCS Midwest Renewables Project.},
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year = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994},
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