Open AccessDampening variations in wind power generation—the effect of optimizing geographic location of generating sites
Author(s) -
Reichenberg Lina,
Johnsson Filip,
Odenberger Mikael
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
wind energy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1099-1824
pISSN - 1095-4244
DOI - 10.1002/we.1657
Subject(s) - wind power , wind speed , power (physics) , work (physics) , electricity generation , meteorology , computer science , optimal allocation , geographic variation , environmental science , wind direction , mathematical optimization , engineering , geography , mathematics , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , population , physics , demography , quantum mechanics , sociology
This paper presents a method to dampen the variations in the output of aggregated wind power through geographic allocation of wind power generation sites. The method, which is based on the sequential optimization of site localization, is applied to the Nordic countries and Germany, using meteorologic wind speed data as the input. The results show that the variability in aggregated wind power output mitigates by applying sequential optimization. For the data used in this work, the coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean) was 0.54 for the optimized aggregation of sites, as compared with 0.91 for the present day installation. An optimal allocation of wind power generation site reduces the need for dispatch and other measures to deal with the intermittent nature of wind power. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.