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Title: Analysis of the effects of integrating wind turbines into a conventional utility: a case study. Revised final report

Abstract

The impact on a utility incorporating wind turbine generation due to wind speed sampling frequency, wind turbine performance model, and wind speed forecasting accuracy is examined. The utility analyzed in this study was the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the wind turbine assumed was the MOD-2. The sensitivity of the economic value of wind turbine generation to wind speed sampling frequency and wind turbine modeling technique is examined as well as the impact of wind 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)

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
JBF Scientific Corp., Wilmington, MA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
6320686
Report Number(s):
PNL-3962-Rev.
ON: DE83011154
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
17 WIND ENERGY; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; WIND TURBINES; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ACCURACY; CALIFORNIA; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FORECASTING; INTERCONNECTED POWER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATING COST; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALUES; VELOCITY; WIND; COST; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FEDERAL REGION IX; MACHINERY; NORTH AMERICA; POWER SYSTEMS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; SIMULATION; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINERY; USA; 170400* - Wind Energy- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects; 299003 - Energy Planning & Policy- Unconventional Sources & Power Generation- Other- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Goldenblatt, M K, Wegley, H L, and Miller, A H. Analysis of the effects of integrating wind turbines into a conventional utility: a case study. Revised final report. United States: N. p., 1983. Web. doi:10.2172/6320686.
Goldenblatt, M K, Wegley, H L, & Miller, A H. Analysis of the effects of integrating wind turbines into a conventional utility: a case study. Revised final report. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6320686
Goldenblatt, M K, Wegley, H L, and Miller, A H. 1983. "Analysis of the effects of integrating wind turbines into a conventional utility: a case study. Revised final report". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6320686. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6320686.
@article{osti_6320686,
title = {Analysis of the effects of integrating wind turbines into a conventional utility: a case study. Revised final report},
author = {Goldenblatt, M K and Wegley, H L and Miller, A H},
abstractNote = {The impact on a utility incorporating wind turbine generation due to wind speed sampling frequency, wind turbine performance model, and wind speed forecasting accuracy is examined. The utility analyzed in this study was the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the wind turbine assumed was the MOD-2. The sensitivity of the economic value of wind turbine generation to wind speed sampling frequency and wind turbine modeling technique is examined as well as the impact of wind 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)},
doi = {10.2172/6320686},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6320686}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1983},
month = {Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1983}
}