Masters Theses

Date of Award

8-2011

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Electrical Engineering

Major Professor

Kevin Tomsovic

Committee Members

Fangxing Li, Leon Tolbert

Abstract

The United State’s renewable portfolio standards call for a large increase of renewable energy and improved conservation efforts over today’s current system. Wind will play a ma jor role in meeting the renewable portfolio standards. As a result, the amount of wind capacity and generation has been growing exponentially over the past 10 to 15 years. The proposed unit commitment method integrates wind energy into a scheduable resource while keeping the formulation simple using mixed integer programming. A reserve constraint is developed and added to unit commitment giving the forecasted wind energy an effective cost. The reserve constraint can be scaled based on the needs of the system: cost, reliability, or the penetration of wind energy. The results show that approximately 24% of the load can be met in the given test system, while keeping a constant reliability before and after wind is introduced. This amount of wind will alone meet many of the renewable portfolio standards in the United States.

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