Reliability Evaluation in Power System Integrated with Wind Power

Abstract

Wind energy is the most significant renewable energy resource in power system generation. Conventional energy resources are dwindling and public concern are rapidly increasing, hence wind power is known as a proper alternative to solve this problem in the last decade. Reliability assessment of power system integrated with wind energy is an intricate process. The evaluation process requires historical wind speed data collected over many years for the particular site to determine the needed parameters of wind speed model. In this paper statistical test is used to generate wind speed probability distribution at different location. The wind speed model combined with the wind turbine generator characteristics to obtain wind farm power output. This paper also presents an analytical method which is applied to a large test system to illustrate impact of wind power on reliability indices