Combining Wind and Pumped Hydro Energy Storage for Renewable Energy Generation in Ireland

Wind powered pumped hydro storage systems, a means of increasing the penetration of renewable energy in the Canary Islands

A significant number of islands have found themselves obliged to place restrictions on the penetration of renewable sourced energy in their conventional electrical grid systems. In general, this has been due to certain energy related characteristics often connected to their very nature as islands. These limitations attempt to prevent the appearance of problems that might affect the stability an...

Feasibility Study of Pumped Hydro Energy Storage for Ramea Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System

The contribution of wind-hydro pumped storage systems in meeting Turkey’s electric energy demand

Renewable energy resources have played an important role to meet increasing energy demand in the world. Among the renewable energy resources, especially, wind energy is of interest due to some advantages, such as being clean, environmental friendly etc. However, the intermittent nature of wind creates several problems to the power system operation and new approaches based on the combined use of...

Study on unit commitment problem considering wind power and pumped hydro energy storage

The stochastic and intermittent characteristic of wind power present great challenge to the operation of power system. A novel unit commitment problem (UCP) model is proposed in this paper. As the status of thermal units need to be described by binary number, Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) algorithm is proposed to find the optimum schedule scheme. Case studies on the 10 units system ...

Value of Pumped-Hydro Storage in a Hybrid Energy Generation and Allocation System

Transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources is inevitable. In this direction, variation and intermittency of renewables can be integrated into the grid by means of hybrid systems which operate as a combination of alternative resources, energy storage and long distance transmission lines. In this study, we propose a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming model for sizing an integra...