gary
28-03-2017, 04:05 PM
A couple of years ago as I travelled through West Texas, I was
flabbergasted by the vast amount of wind power generation taking place
there in a part of the world long associated with oil production.
The farmers were happy, I was told, because they were making more
money leasing space for wind turbines than they were making from their
traditional oil pump jacks as the oil supply dwindled.
In fact Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state, currently
some 18,531 MW.
To put that into perspective, the state of NSW has around 20,000 MW of
installed electricity generation capacity including coal powered
stations and the many small generators and roof top PV systems.
A March 23 2017 article at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) web site by researchers in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Texas points to a white paper
which is part of a "Full Cost of Electricity" study.
What they found in the case of Texas was that going from
a zonal electricity pricing market to a nodal electricity pricing market,
they could actually increase the amount of installed wind power
without needing to increase the amount of non-renewable reserves
and achieve the same reliability.
Article here :-
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/policy/more-renewable-energy-means-more-operating-reserves-right-wrong
White paper here :-
http://energy.utexas.edu/files/2017/01/UTAustin_FCe_Ancillary_2017.pdf
flabbergasted by the vast amount of wind power generation taking place
there in a part of the world long associated with oil production.
The farmers were happy, I was told, because they were making more
money leasing space for wind turbines than they were making from their
traditional oil pump jacks as the oil supply dwindled.
In fact Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state, currently
some 18,531 MW.
To put that into perspective, the state of NSW has around 20,000 MW of
installed electricity generation capacity including coal powered
stations and the many small generators and roof top PV systems.
A March 23 2017 article at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) web site by researchers in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Texas points to a white paper
which is part of a "Full Cost of Electricity" study.
What they found in the case of Texas was that going from
a zonal electricity pricing market to a nodal electricity pricing market,
they could actually increase the amount of installed wind power
without needing to increase the amount of non-renewable reserves
and achieve the same reliability.
Article here :-
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/policy/more-renewable-energy-means-more-operating-reserves-right-wrong
White paper here :-
http://energy.utexas.edu/files/2017/01/UTAustin_FCe_Ancillary_2017.pdf