Integration of renewable resources in the New York electricity market

In New York the predominant renewable resources are hydro and wind. Wind power, in terms of both capacity and generation, has surged in New York in recent years. In recent years, more than 1,200 megawatts of wind capacity has been added to the grid. The continued growth of wind as a generation resource in New York is expected for the foreseeable future with over 7000mw in the current inter-connection queue. In 2008 NYISO implemented a wind forecasting system which provides day ahead and real time forecast for each wind plant in the state. This software has allowed NYISO to forecast the available wind energy with a Mean Average Error in the 8% range for the day ahead and 4% range in hour ahead.