Increasing the penetration of wind using DER

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Increasing the penetration of wind using DER

• Dr. Parag Vyas
• GE Global Research
• Munich, Germany

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GE in Europe
32 billion turnover in 2003 75,000 GE employees
today Tenfold increase over 15 years

• GE Global Research Munich, Germany
• Alternative energy
• Hybrid systems

GE Energy Hydro Trondheim, Norway
GE Energy Wind Salzbergen, Germany
GE Jenbacher Jenbach, Austria
GE Energy - Oil and Gas Florence, Italy
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Wind intermittency management
As penetration of wind increases, intermittent
nature of wind generation becomes an issue Using
Distributed Energy Resources to manage the
intermittency enables more wind to come onto the
network
Approach is to use hydro assets and part load gas
turbines (biomass) to counteract the short term
fluctuations in wind generation Need to model
wind generation, hydro plant, gas turbines and
power system Implement controller strategies for
hydro and gas turbine operation
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Strategy
Hydro Variable speed River systems Pumped hydro
using abandoned mines and geological structures

• Part load gas turbines
• Mini turbines make use of biomass
• Part load operation of larger gas turbines

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Work Plan
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Thank you for your attention
parag.vyas_at_research.ge.com