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Outhred: Wind Energy in the Australian National Electricity Market
Wind - electricity market issues
§Aggregated
wind farm behaviour more predictable than individual wind
farms:
–Difficult
to represent in bilateral contracts
§Difficulty
increases with wind farm penetration
§Location
(network) values also challenging:
–Wind
farms may be located in weak parts of network
–Network services essential to capturing wind farm aggregation
benefits
§Security
& ancillary service costs difficult to quantify & assign