Effects of Wind Power Technology Development on Large-scale VRE Generation Variability

Matti Juhani Koivisto; Petr Maule; Nicolaos Antonio Cutululis; Poul Ejnar Sørensen

doi:10.1109/PTC.2019.8810687

Effects of Wind Power Technology Development on Large-scale VRE Generation Variability

Matti Juhani Koivisto^*, Petr Maule, Nicolaos Antonio Cutululis, Poul Ejnar Sørensen

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As variable renewable energy (VRE) shares are growing around the world, power systems are becoming more weather dependent. The weather driven variability in VRE generation can cause challenges to the operation and planning of power systems. This paper investigates how the expected technology development of wind power affects VRE generation variability over a large geographical area. A case study of Northern Europe is presented, where a mixture of offshore wind, onshore wind and solar photovoltaic generation is considered. Different scenarios with a doubling of today’s annual VRE energy generation is modelled. The results show that modern wind turbine technology can significantly decrease the variability in aggregate VRE generation. When considering also an optimal mixture of different VRE sources, standard deviation of the aggregate VRE generation is estimated to be 31 % lower compared to simply doubling existing installations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th IEEE PowerTech Milano 2019: Leading innovation for energy transition
Number of pages	6
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2019
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-4723-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-4722-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PTC.2019.8810687
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	13^th IEEE PowerTech Milano 2019: Leading innovation for energy transition - Bovisa Campus of Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Duration: 23 Jun 2019 → 27 Jun 2019 Conference number: 13 http://ieee-powertech.org/

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Number	13
Location	Bovisa Campus of Politecnico di Milano
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Milano
Period	23/06/2019 → 27/06/2019
Other	PowerTech is the anchor conference of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) in Europe
Internet address	http://ieee-powertech.org/

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NSON-DK: North Sea Offshore Network - Denmark
Sørensen, P. E. S. (Project Coordinator), Das, K. (Project Participant), Koivisto, M. J. (Project Participant), Pade, L.-L. (Project Participant), Skytte, K. (Project Participant), Gea-Bermudez, J. (Project Participant), Papakonstantinou, A. (Project Participant), Boscán Flores, L. R. (Project Participant), Kanellas, P. (Project Participant), Plakas, K. (Project Participant), Kitzing, L. (Project Participant) & Bergaentzlé, C. M. (Project Participant)
01/04/2016 → 31/03/2020
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