Green Park is highly experienced in the analysis of the impacts of wind energy on utility systems and has led major wind integration studies around the world. We analyze the grid impacts of wind generation over various time periods and scales by using simulated wind generation data for existing or potential wind project sites, along with next-day hourly forecasts.
This data, which is verified and calibrated, enables us to provide clients with an accurate assessment of the impacts of wind generation on their utility system operations for a wide range of wind scenarios, helping to manage wind assets, plan for future expansion, and assess risks.
Our services include:
• Grid integration studies for grid operators and power companies. We can help evaluate the current and future impact of wind energy on grid operations. Working with your team, we will develop realistic wind expansion scenarios and model the wind and generation variability on time scales as short as seconds. We can also assess the impacts of variable wind generation on such aspects as voltage stability, plant dispatch, fuel use, emissions, and reliability.
• Wind generation data and scenario-building tools. We can provide synthesized wind resource and generation data for local, regional, and national studies, as well as software tools to allow you to build your own wind expansion and generation scenarios.
• Transmission capacity and plant revenue and curtailment risks. Our power engineering team can help evaluate wind project sites by estimating available transmission capacity (including the effects of other renewable energy plants in the queue), forecasting revenues based on current and future locational marginal pricing (LMP), and assessing curtailment risk.
