Impact of the penetration of wind power on the Libyan power system

The variability and stochastic nature of wind power have raised concerns about their impacts on power system reliability and cost. Adding wind power to power systems will have beneficial impacts in terms of reduced emissions due to electricity production and lowering the long-term operational costs as less fuel is consumed in conventional power plants. Wind power will also have some capacity value to a power system. The objectives of this paper are to discuss the impacts of the penetration of wind power on the Libyan power system with reference to voltage improvement and evaluate the reliability impact using the basic loss of load probability and expectation concepts.