The scale factor for the use of power plants of a certain type refers to the fraction of their use in the overall energy balance of the system. Energy production by wind power plants depends directly on the wind conditions in a particular location and is stochastic in character. Increasing the fraction of these installations in the overall balance of a system also requires an increase in the power reserve capacity. Here the time a power system remains in the power deficit zone is estimated as a function of the fraction of wind power plants in the system structure. Two approaches to the placement of wind power units within a power system are compared– individual components and a system of a set of components. It is concluded that even within a small power system, combining geographically distributed components with favorable and unfavorable wind conditions into a system can have a positive effect on all the components within certain ranges of the scale factor.
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Translated from Élektricheskie Stantsii, No. 8, August 2018, pp. 52 – 59.
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Fedorov, E.V., Shcheklein, S.E. & Akif’eva, N.N. Assessment of the Time a Power System Remains in the Power Deficit Zone as a Function of the Scale Factor for Wind-Power Plants. Power Technol Eng 53, 94–100 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-019-01042-8
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