The Optimal Allocation of Pumped Storage Station in Wind Farm

To solve peak shaving and abandoning the wind problems caused by the integrate wind generation capacity which is more than certain percentage, and improve the output characteristics of wind power, the mode of constructing the supporting pumped storage power station with wind farm can be adopted. This work is based on modeling the wind farm and pumped storage power plant operation, targets at the hybrid wind power and pumped hydro storage systems (WP-PHS) economic benefits. The stochastic nature of load and wind energy is addressed using scenarios developed through fuzzy clustering. Finally, a practical example simulation results showed that the combined revenues of wind farm can be improved by the proper capacity allocation of pumped storage power station.