Reliability Considerations in the Utilization of Wind Energy, Solar Energy and Energy Storage in Electric Power Systems

Author

Billinton, Roy ; Bagen

Author_Institution

Power Syst. Res. Group, Saskatchewan Univ., Saskatoon, Sask.

fYear

2006

fDate

11-15 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wind and solar energy are being increasingly used in electric power supply due to environmental concerns and fuel cost escalation associated with conventional energy sources. Wind and sunlight are, however, variable energy sources and behave very differently from conventional energy sources. Energy storage systems are, therefore, often required to smooth the fluctuating nature of these energy conversion systems. This paper presents a method for capacity adequacy evaluation of a power system containing wind energy, solar energy and energy storage

Keywords

energy storage; power system reliability; solar energy conversion; solar power; sunlight; wind power; electric power systems; energy conversion systems; energy storage; fuel cost escalation; reliability; solar energy; sunlight; wind energy; Energy storage; Power generation; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Power system simulation; Solar energy; Solar power generation; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; Electric Power Systems; Energy Storage; Reliability Evaluation; Solar Energy; Wind Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, 2006. PMAPS 2006. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

Print_ISBN

978-91-7178-585-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PMAPS.2006.360204

Filename

4202216