Renewable Energy Integration: Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids

by Lawrence E. Jones

Overview

Renewable Energy Integration is a ground-breaking new resource - the first to offer a distilled examination of the intricacies of integrating renewables into the power grid and electricity markets. It offers informed perspectives from internationally renowned experts on the challenges to be met and solutions based on demonstrated best practices developed by operators around the world. The book's focus on practical implementation of strategies provides real-world context for theoretical underpinnings and the development of supporting policy frameworks. The book considers a myriad of wind, solar, wave and tidal integration issues, thus ensuring that grid operators with low or high penetration of renewable generation can leverage the victories achieved by their peers. Renewable Energy Integration highlights, carefully explains, and illustrates the benefits of advanced technologies and systems for coping with variability, uncertainty, and flexibility.

• Lays out the key issues around the integration of renewables into power grids and markets, from the intricacies of operational and planning considerations, to supporting regulatory and policy frameworks
• Provides global case studies that highlight the challenges of renewables integration and present field-tested solutions
• Illustrates enabling and disruptive technologies to support the management of variability, uncertainty and flexibility

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780124081222
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/12/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	474
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Lawrence E. Jones, a recognized thought leader and practitioner has over twenty-five years of experience in the energy industry. His expertise includes renewable energy integration, and the application of smarter technologies in the engineering, design and operations of energy systems and other critical infrastructures. He also focuses on system resilience, disruptive and innovative business and regulatory models, and strategies for addressing challenges to harnessing the opportunities at the food-energy-water nexus. Dr. Jones received the Renewable Energy World’s 2012 Award for Leadership in Technology, and the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group 2012 Achievement Award. He is Vice President at the Edison Electric Institute, and Honorary Industry Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

1. The Journey of Reinventing the European Electricity Landscape – Challenges and Pioneers2. Policies for Accommodating Higher Penetration of Variable Energy Resources (VER’s)3. Harnessing and Integrating Africa’s Renewable Energy Resources4. Challenges and Opportunities of Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Scale Modeling and Algorithms for Integrating Variable Energy Resources in Power Networks 5. Integrating Renewables in Nordic Electricity Market6. Case Study of Renewable Integration - Cal ISO USA7. Impact of Variable Generation on Power System Reserve 8. Advances in Market Management Solutions for Variable Energy Resources Integration 9. Case Study: Reserve Management for Integrating Variable Generation in Electricity Markets 10. Case Study: Grid and Market Integration of Wind Generation in Tamil Nadu, India 11. Forecasting Renewable Energy for Grid Operations 12. Probabilistic Wind and Solar Power Predictions 13. Incorporating Forecast Uncertainty in Utility Control Centers 14. Global Power Grids for Harnessing World Renewable Energy 15. Transmission Grids for Integrating On - and Offshore Variable Generation Resources 16. Case Study: Integration of Renewables - Indian Experience 17. Long Term Energy Systems Planning: Accounting for Short Term Variability and Flexibility18. The Danish Case: Taking Advantage of Flexible Power in an Energy System with High Wind Penetration19. Analyzing Power System Flexibility20. Demand Response for Integrating Variable Renewable Energy: A Northwest Perspective 21. Case Study: Demand Response and Alternative Technologies in Electricity Markets 22. The Implications of Distributed Energy Resources on Traditional Utility Business Model 23. Case Study: Application of Energy Storage for Renewable Integration 24. Renewables Integration on Islands 25. Case Study: Intentional Islanding with Synchronous-Machine-Based Renewables 26. Connecting Large Scale Solar to Power Grid 27. State-of-the Art and Future Outlook of Integrating Wave and Tidal Energy 28. Case Study: Integration of Renewables in Germany 29. Control of Power Systems with High Penetration Variable Generation30. Enhancing Situation Awareness in Power Systems Under Uncertainty 31. Case Study: Managing Operational Uncertainty through Improve Visualization Tools in Control Centers 32. Applications of Dynamic Line Rating to Integrating Renewable Energy 33. PMU and WAMS Application to Renewables Integration 34. Every Moment Counts: Synchrophasors for Distribution Networks with Variable Resources35. Big Data, Data Mining, and Predictive Analytics and High Performance Computing

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Learn how power grids are evolving to meet the needs of dynamic, distributed, and clean energy producers and best practices developed by operators around the world

Editorial Reviews

"Considerable insight and information are provided for anyone wanting to learn more about the challenges and opportunities for integrating renewables into power systems." —IEEE

"Like many other industries, the energy sector is undergoing a transformation. As a number of countries strive to reduce the environmental footprint of their energy production, new technologies are opening up unforeseen possibilities and challenging the status quo. There is no doubt that renewable energy, including hydropower, is part of the solution. This work brings together a wide range of information and visions to better understand the importance of developing and integrating various sources of clean energy in order to ensure the long-term viability of our industry and to help society move towards sustainability. In short, this forward-looking work will educate and equip readers for the future." —Éric Martel, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hydro-Québec

"We are living through a second Renaissance. And as this, the 2nd edition of Renewable Energy Integration, makes clear, nowhere are the possibilities and stakes of this Renaissance moment clearer than in our energy infrastructure. Now is a moment, like 500 years ago, when humanity sets out on brave new voyages of discovery—voyages whose outcome is uncertain. This book takes what we've found so far from these voyages and expertly compiles the definitive map of the renewable energy landscape as we now know it: from Africa, to India, to Denmark and California; from pumped hydro to compressed air storage; from market management systems to smart grid operations; from residential batteries to global power distribution. It's a must-read for every captain, every pilot of our energy renaissance." —Dr. Chris Kutarna, Author, Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

"Jones has once again assembled an impressive set of authors to address one of the most pressing issues of our time – how to operate electricity systems with high levels of renewables. While the authors are highly technically qualified, their chapters are wonderfully clear and accessible to non-specialists. I expect this volume will be a valuable resource for practitioners, students, and policymakers around the world." —Dr. Catherine Wolfram, Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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