Quantifying the Economic and Grid Reliability Impacts of Improved Wind Power Forecasting

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1525-1537

  Wang, Qin ^a   Martinez Anido, Carlo Brancucci ^a   Wu, Hongyu ^a   Florita, Anthony R ^a   Hodge, Bri Mathias ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area control error (ACE); economic dispatch; economic impacts; market operations; reliability; unit commitment; wind forecasting

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FORECASTING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND POWER;

AREA CONTROL ERROR; ECONOMIC DISPATCH; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; MARKET OPERATION; UNIT-COMMITMENT; WIND FORECASTING;

ELECTRIC LOAD DISPATCHING;

EID: 84988708716     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2016.2560628     Document Type: Article

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