At 8 pm on January 12, 2007 Danish wind turbines produced 58% of total Danish consumption or 2725 MW of … Read more
Grid Integration
by Frank Sensuss, Massimo Genose, Mario Ragwitz (on the Merit Order Effect)
The Midwest Wind Integration Study, which was required by the Minnesota legislature in 2005 to evaluate reliability and other impacts … Read more
New Energy reports (2/2006) that on 16 February, 2006 during the peak of consumption in Spain at 9:25 pm, Spanish … Read more
Even with the added costs to deal with intermittency, wind is roughly competitive with other generation technologies under a strong carbon constraint.
When wind serves upwards of 60 percent of demand, the model chooses to install more GT than GTCC capacity because the lower
rates of gas utilization dictate the use of lower efficiency, lower capital cost gas turbines.
We find that, with somewhat optimistic assumptions about the cost of wind turbines, the use of wind to serve 50% of demand adds ~1-2¢/kWh to the cost of electricity, a cost comparable to that of other large-scale low carbon technologies.
