Das Projekt "FP5-EESD, Towards high Penetration and Firm Power from Wind Energy" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Bremer Institut für Betriebstechnik und angewandte Arbeitswissenschaft an der Universität Bremen.Objective: There is a clear global environmental imperative to develop and use our natural renewable energy resources. Development of such resources can also bring industrial and social benefits. Wind energy as a leading renewable is reaching a remarkable stage of technological and commercial maturity. An emerging barrier to wind energy reaching its full potential relates to the fact that existing grids have been designed and are operated to accommodate conventional centralised generation. In many locations, grid operators are concerned if wind penetration reaches more than 20 per cent since it can no longer be treated as a 'negative load'. The FIRMWIND project looks at how, by taking a non-conventional view of the grid network, much higher wind penetration levels might be achieved. The project, via case study, will look at how various holistic control strategies might allow high wind penetration and high capacity credit at the distribution system level. All elements of the system have the potential to have some degree of power balancing control exercised on them and the project will focus on how this can effectively confer firmness of supply. The project aims to:- Quantify improvements to wind penetration made possible by the introduction of various energy storage and load management options; - Quantify the change to capacity credit made possible by these options and to study how this changes as the wind capacity on the system increases; - Carry out a technical assessment of how taking an integrated approach would enable wind to produce firm power and hence reduce or obviate dependence on interconnection capacity. Description of the Work: The project will not develop new technology. Rather it aims to look at how current or developing technology could be applied. The project has six tasks. In the first phase of the project three preliminary tasks will be undertaken. Suitable load flow analysis tools will be studied and developed so that they can adequately handle active load and storage components. As a parallel exercise, storage, load control and power side control technologies will be reviewed and characterised. Thirdly a range of potential case studies will be identified and three chosen for subsequent study. Relevant information necessary for logistic modelling will be gathered or synthesised. The second phase of the project will comprise the core analytical task in which the modelling tools will be used to study and optimise how the available approaches and devices might be used to achieve high penetration in the context of the chosen case studies. In the final phase of the project potential technical and institutional barriers to realisation of the proposed solutions will be identified. Prime Contractor: Renewable Energy Systems Ltd., Glasgow Office; Glasgow.