ABSTRACT
Among the renewable energy technologies, wind energy conversion is one of the most mature and perhaps the one closest to economic viability. However, like most of the renewable technologies, it is characterized by a strongly varying energy source input and incorporation into dependable supply systems would require either substantial energy storage capacity or the availability of a traditional backup system, which can be regulated in counterphase with the wind energy system. The Simulation Model will be studied using hour-by-hour simulation techniques based on actual wind and hydro data for Denmark and Norway, respectively. The present all-hydro Norwegian power system is considered in conjunction with a hypothetical all-wind power system for Denmark. The simulation uses load variations on an hourly timescale. Since it was not possible to procure actual sequences of load data, two synthetic data sets were generated, one for Denmark and one for Norway.
