Intraday markets, wind integration and uplift payments in a regional U.S. power system

Hohl, Cody; Prete, Chiara Lo; Radhakrishnan, Ashish; Webster, Mort

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113503

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“…The hour-to-hour profile of wind speed at wind turbines and the resulting profile of generation is critical input for a wide range of applications. For example, the match between hourly wind generation and hourly electricity demand can impact assessments of the value of wind plants 1 – 6 , the timing of wind output can influence operational decisions across power grids 7 , 8 , and can even impact long term planning 9 – 12 . With respect to decarbonization goals, Jenkins et al .…”

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A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models

Millstein,

Jeong,

Ancell

et al. 2023

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In 2022, wind generation accounted for ~10% of total electricity generation in the United States. As wind energy accounts for a greater portion of total energy, understanding geographic and temporal variation in wind generation is key to many planning, operational, and research questions. However, in-situ observations of wind speed are expensive to make and rarely shared publicly. Meteorological models are commonly used to estimate wind speeds, but vary in quality and are often challenging to access and interpret. The Plant-Level US multi-model WIND and generation (PLUSWIND) data repository helps to address these challenges. PLUSWIND provides wind speeds and estimated generation on an hourly basis at almost all wind plants across the contiguous United States from 2018–2021. The repository contains wind speeds and generation based on three different meteorological models: ERA5, MERRA2, and HRRR. Data are publicly accessible in simple csv files. Modeled generation is compared to regional and plant records, which highlights model biases and errors and how they differ by model, across regions, and across time frames.

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