Optimal Bidding in Wind Farm Management

Abstract

We study the problem of wind farm management, in which the manager commits himself to deliver energy in some future time. He reduces the consequences of uncertainty by using a storage facility (a battery, for instance). We consider a simplified model in discrete time, in which the commitment is for the next period. We solve an optimal control problem to define the optimal bidding decision. Application to a real dataset is done, and the optimal size of the battery (or the overnight costs) for the wind farm is determined. We then describe a continuous time version involving a delay between the time of decision and the implementation.