Ramp forecasting performance from improved short-term wind power forecasting

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2A, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Jie ^a   Florita, Anthony ^a   Hodge, Bri Mathias ^a   Freedman, Jeffrey ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AWS Truepower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Grid integration; Performance diagram; Ramp forecasting; Swinging door algorithm; Wind forecasting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF TEXAS; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; GRID INTEGRATION; PERFORMANCE DIAGRAM; SHORT-TERM WIND POWER FORECAST; SHORT-TERM WIND POWER FORECASTING; SWINGING DOOR ALGORITHMS; WIND FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84926219686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2014-34775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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