Design and Operation of Energy Systems with Large Amounts of Variable Generation: IEA Wind TCP Task 25 (Final Summary Report)
- Recognis (Finland)
- VTT (Finland)
- Natural Resources Canada (Canada)
- Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ) (Canada)
- SGERI (China)
- Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark)
- Energinet (Denmark)
- Ea Energy Analyses, Kobenhavn (Denmark)
- EdF (France)
- RTE (France)
- Fraunhofer IEE, Kassel (Germany)
- FfE (Germany)
- Univ. College Dublin (Ireland)
- Terna (Italy)
- Kyoto Univ. (Japan)
- CRIEPI (Japan)
- TU Delft (The Netherlands)
- TNO (The Netherlands)
- Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)
- SINTEF (Norway)
- National Lab. of Energy and Geology (LNEG), Amadora (Portugal)
- INESC-TEC - Inst. for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto (Portugal)
- Univ. Castilla La Mancha, Cuidad Real (Spain)
- KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- ESIG (United States)
- WindEurope, Brussels (Belgium)
This report summarizes findings on wind integration from the 17 countries or sponsors participating in the International Energy Agency Wind Technology Collaboration Program (IEA Wind TCP) Task 25 from 2006-2020. Both real experience and studies are reported. Many wind integration studies incorporate solar energy, and most of the results discussed here are valid for other variable renewables in addition to wind. The national case studies address several impacts of wind power on electric power systems. In this report, they are grouped under long-term planning issues and short-term operational impacts. Long-term planning issues include grid planning and capacity adequacy. Short-term operational impacts include reliability, stability, reserves, and maximizing the value of wind in operational timescales (balancing related issues). The first section presents the variability and uncertainty of power system-wide wind power, and the last section presents recent studies toward 100% shares of renewables. The appendix provides a summary of ongoing research in the national projects contributing to Task 25 for 2021-2024. The design and operation of power and energy systems is an evolving field. As ambitious targets toward net-zero carbon energy systems are announced globally, many scenarios are being made regarding how to reach these future decarbonized energy systems, most of them involving large amounts of variable renewables, mainly wind and solar energy. The secure operation of power systems is increasingly challenging, and the impacts of variable renewables, new electrification loads together with increased distribution system resources will lead to somewhat different challenges for different systems. Tools and methods to study future power and energy systems also need to evolve, and both short-term operational aspects (such as power system stability) and long-term aspects (such as resource adequacy) will probably see new paradigms of operation and design. The experience of operating and planning systems with large amounts of variable generation is accumulating, and research to tackle the challenges of inverter-based, nonsynchronous generation is on the way. Energy transition and digitalization also bring new flexibility opportunities, both short and long term.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Wind Energy Technologies Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1843208
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/TP-6A40-80998; MainId:79774; UUID:7cd9fe94-71b4-4137-b136-73040502ef46; MainAdminID:63709
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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