scholarly journals Wind Energy Curtailment Case Studies: May 2008 - May 2009

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Fink ◽  
C. Mudd ◽  
K. Porter ◽  
B. Morgenstern
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Case Studies

scholarly journals Enabling Renewable Energy While Protecting Wildlife: An Ecological Risk-Based Approach to Wind Energy Development Using Ecosystem-Based Management Values

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9352
Author(s):  
Andrea E. Copping ◽  
Alicia M. Gorton ◽  
Roel May ◽  
Finlay Bennet ◽  
Elise DeGeorge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Wind Farm ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Marine Animals ◽  
Ecosystem Based Management ◽  
Wind Energy Development

Acceptance of wind energy development is challenged by stakeholders’ concerns about potential effects on the environment, specifically on wildlife, such as birds, bats, and (for offshore wind) marine animals, and the habitats that support them. Communities near wind energy developments are also concerned with social and economic impacts, as well as impacts on aesthetics, historical sites, and recreation and tourism. Lack of a systematic, widely accepted, and balanced approach for measuring the potential damage to wildlife, habitats, and communities continues to leave wind developers, regulators, and other stakeholders in an uncertain position. This paper explores ecological risk-based management (RBM) in wind energy development for land-based and offshore wind installations. This paper provides a framework for the adaptation of ecosystem-based management to wind energy development and examines that framework through a series of case studies and best management practices for applying risk-based principles to wind energy. Ten case studies indicate that wind farm monitoring is often driven by regulatory requirements that may not be underpinned by scientific questions. While each case applies principles of adaptive management, there is room for improvement in applying scientific principles to the data collection and analysis. Challenges and constraints for wind farm development to meet RBM framework criteria include collecting sufficient baseline and monitoring data year-round, engaging stakeholder facilitators, and bringing together large and diverse scientific teams. The RBM framework approach may provide insights for improved siting and consenting/permitting processes for regulators and their advisors, particularly in those nations where wind energy is still in the early development stages on land or at sea.

Local acceptance of wind energy: Factors of success identified in French and German case studies

Energy Policy ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 2751-2760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Jobert ◽  
Pia Laborgne ◽  
Solveig Mimler
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Energy Factors ◽  
Local Acceptance ◽  
Factors Of Success

scholarly journals Impact of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on power system with high wind power penetration

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Essam Harby ◽  
Said Elsayed Elmasry ◽  
Adel Elsamahy ◽  
Luis Marroyo ◽  
Javier Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Hybrid Electric Vehicles ◽  
High Wind ◽  
Frequency Oscillation ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
System Frequency

The rising energy independence and environmental concerns are key drivers in the growing popularity of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Because of the intermittent nature of the renewable energy sources, this may cause a high-frequency oscillation of the power system. From another aspect, all the PHEVs have in common the batteries, which provide the storage capability that can be effectively harnessed when the vehicles are integrated into the grid. Such a storage capability can effectively integrate wind power into the grid and all indicators signalize that the PHEVs are the most promising technology of the future transportation system. In this paper, different case studies are applied on one area power system to show the effect of the high wind energy penetration on the power system frequency and how the PHEVs can play an effective role in mitigating the power system frequency oscillation and supporting the more penetration of the wind energy into smarter electrical grids. In addition, an advanced controller has been designed to improve the frequency response and to compensate the delay of the system. The designed controller is a genetic algorithm (GA) based PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller, it has been proposed for tuning optimized PID parameters. The results show that the controller has played an effective role in decreasing the response overshoot and settling time when used with the PHEVs. The used variable load, the thermal power plant parameters, and the wind turbine parameters are the same for the five case studies.

scholarly journals Industry-based Case Studies for an Online Graduate Certificate Wind Energy Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Stewart ◽  
Stephanie Cutler ◽  
Sven Schmitz ◽  
Alexa Kottmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Wind Energy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Graduate Certificate
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