California ISO experience with wind farm modeling

Author

Green, Irina ; Zhang, Yi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Regional Transm., California ISO, Folsom, CA, USA

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wind turbine generators (WTG) have been deployed in many places in the past. It is expected that more and more wind farms will be developed in the near future to meet the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) target. This paper summarizes the experience of the California ISO (CAISO) with the wind generation interconnection studies. The power flow modeling of utility scale wind farm is summarized first. The challenges of dynamic modeling of large wind farm in generation interconnection and transmission planning studies are discussed. The impact of wind intermittency on the dynamic model of WTG is investigated. The wind generation interconnection studies in real system have been used as examples in the discussion.

Keywords

power system interconnection; turbogenerators; wind power plants; wind turbines; CAISO; California ISO experience; RPS target; WTG; power flow modeling; renewable portfolio standard target; transmission planning study; wind farm modeling; wind generation interconnection study; wind turbine generator; Computational modeling; Generators; Load flow; Planning; Reactive power; Stability analysis; Wind farms; Dynamic; Generator interconnection; Intermittency; Modeling; Renewable Portfolio Standards; Renewable energy; Wind turbine generator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1000-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2011.6038951

Filename

6038951