ABSTRACT
Renewable energy planning aims to locate and size wind farms or photovoltaics (PV) sites optimally. Renewable energy planning aims to optimize the location and capacity of wind farms / PV according to the wind/radiation resources and grid connections. This chapter explains a planning model considering both the energy and the capacity benefit of the wind farms. It focuses on the planning of wind farms while maximizing the energy benefit and capacity benefit. An illustrative example of a modified institute of electrical and electronics engineers reliability test system IEEE RTS-79 and a case study in Ningxia shows that the capacity benefit of the wind power should be considered apart from the energy benefit in wind power planning. To verify the feasibility and advantages of the model, the proposed model is compared with a widely used genetic algorithm via a modified IEEE RTS-79 system and the real-world case of Ningxia, China.
