Coping with variability

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Coping with variability Integrating
renewables into the electricity system
Session 1. Variable Renewables and the grid
10.30 a.m. Chair Godfrey Boyle(OU) 10.35
Overview Michael Loughton (Imperial/QMC) 10.55
David Milborrow (Consultant) Wind power on the
grid 11.15 Graham Sinden (ECI) Putting it all
together 11.35 Discussant Goran Strbac
(Manchester) 11. 45 Brief questions 12.00 UKERC
Intermittency review Robert Gross / Dennis
Anderson (TPA/Imperial) 12.20 Computer Models of
Integrated systems Mark Barrett
(Consultant) 12.40 Discussion 1.00pm Lunch
Session 2 Flexible Hardware Chair Dave
Elliott (OU) 2.00 Overview Fred Starr
(Institute of Energy, Netherlands) Flexibility
Issues in Advanced Generating Plant 2.20 David
Andrews (Wessex Water) The role of gas and
diesel engines as flexible generation 2.40 Dave
Toke ( DESIRE project ) CHP and wind in Denmark.
3.00 Discussant Bob Everett 3.15
Discussion 3.30 Tea
Session 3 Operational Innovations Chair Godfrey
Boyle (OU) 3.45 Dave Toke Load Management and
wind prediction 4.00 Bob Everett (EERU)
Demand flexibility, Micro-CHP the Informated
Grid 4.10 Tim Foster (SmartestEnergy) Managing
Variability 4.20 Brian Hurley (Airtricity)
Offshore wind grids 5.40 Discussant Simon
Watson (CREST) 4.50 Discussion 5.00 approx.
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Point presentations, subject to authors
agreement, on our Web site, http//eeru.open.ac.uk
We also hope to produce a DVD version of this
Conference contact EERU for details There will
be a short report on this conference in EERUs
journal Renew, Issue 160, March-April 2006 You
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