Quantification of Storage Necessary to Firm Up Wind Generation

Abstract

This paper proposes a method to quantitatively determine the sizes of energy storage systems that are intended to mitigate negative impacts of integrating wind energy into power systems. Although the integration of wind power has several advantages, it poses several technical challenges such as variability and uncertainty of wind speed and failures of wind turbine generators (WTGs), which may deteriorate the reliability of power systems. One of the most practical solutions to mitigate these drawbacks is the use of energy storage systems. The method proposed in this paper determines the sizes of the energy storage systems considering the effect of wind power uncertainty and variability, failures of WTGs, wind speed temporal resolution, and correlation with system load. Sizes of energy storage systems are determined based on composite system reliability analysis under operational and technical constraints using the ac power flow model. Monte Carlo simulation is used to emulate the behavior of the system. The proposed method is demonstrated on the IEEE reliability test system and the results are provided. The results show that the size of an energy storage system is dependent on wind farm characteristics, as well as the connectivity with the rest of the system.