Recent trends in variable generation forecasting and its value to the power system

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 924-933

  Orwig, Kirsten D ^a,b   Ahlstrom, Mark L ^c   Banunarayanan, Venkat ^d   Sharp, Justin ^e   Wilczak, James M ^f   Freedman, Jeffrey ^g   Haupt, Sue Ellen ^h   Cline, Joel ^d   Bartholomy, Obadiah ⁱ   Hamann, Hendrik F ^j   Hodge, Bri Mathias ^a   Finley, Catherine ^c   Nakafuji, Dora ^k   Peterson, Jack L ^l   Maggio, David ^m   Marquis, Melinda ^f  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Swiss Re   (United States)

^c Product Research and Development at NextEra Analytics   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^e Sharply Focused LLC   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ Sacramento Municipal Utility District   (United States)

^j IBM   (United States)

^k HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^l SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON   (United States)

^m ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF TEXAS   (United States)

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Author keywords

Forecasting; large scale integration; market design; power system reliability; renewable energy; solar energy; variable generation; wind energy

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; LSI CIRCUITS; POWER MARKETS; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WIND POWER;

MARKET DESIGN; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; POWER SYSTEM OPERATORS; POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; VARIABLE GENERATIONS; WIND AND SOLAR POWER;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85027945702     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2366118     Document Type: Article

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