『Abstract
The large-scale wind power development in China has reached a
bottleneck of grid integrating capability. As a result, excess
wind electricity has to be rejected in the nighttime low demand
hours, when the wind power is ramping up. To compensate for the
fluctuation of wind power, new coal-fired power plants are being
constructed along with the big wind projects in the North China
grids. This study analyzed why adding coal-fired generation cannot
remove the bottleneck of wind integration by modeling the operating
problem of the wind integration. The peak-load adjusting factor
of the regional grid is defined. Building more coal-fired power
plants will not increase the adjusting factor of the current grid.
Although it does help to increase the total integrated wind power
in the short term, it will add difficulties to the long-term wind
integration. Alternatively, the coordinated resource utilization
is then suggested with the discussion of both the effective pumped
hydo storage and the potential electric vehicle storage.
Keywords: Wind power integration; Coal-fired generation; Storage』
1. Will coal-fired generation support the wind development
in China?
2. Generation mix that determines the wind integrating capability
3. Modeling the wind integrating problem
4. Analysis of the North China regional grid
5. Analysis of the Shandong provincial grid
6. Challenges from generation mix evolution
7. Discussion: potential storage solutions
7.1. Centralized storage: pumped Hydro station
7.2. Distributed storage: plug-in electric vehicles
8. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
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