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BPA Wind Integration Team

BPA's Wind Integration Team projects help BPA and other utilities operate reliably and cost-effectively with large amounts of wind power. We welcome your involvement. Sign up for the WIT e-mailing list to be informed of involvement opportunities.

Wind Integration Team Work Plan Initiative Update Sept. 18, 2009
Wind Integration Team Work Plan, June 2009
Work Plan cover letter, June 16, 2009
Letter to interested parties, May 12, 2009
News & Events
Wind Integration meetings and workshops
Sign up for Wind Integration e-mail list
Wind Integration Staff
Wind Integration staff and project organization (doc)
Contact: Eric King

Operational Controls (DSO 216)

New transmission operating protocols assure grid reliability while the wind fleet grows. Operating and control equipment to automate these protocols will be complete in fall 2009.

Customer Supplied Reserves

This initiative will develop systems and processes to enable wind power projects to supply their within-hour balancing reserves from their own and/or contracted dispatchable resources.

Dynamic Transfer Limits

New power dispatch protocols and scheduling systems could give BPA greater access to balancing reserves for wind, and could allow utilities receiving wind to assume responsibility for balancing their wind power generation with loads.

Intra-Hour Scheduling

Utilities schedule generation and transmission by the hour. Moving to with-hour schedule changes would help utilities manage within-hour variations in wind power.

Third-Party Supply

In 2008, BPA received 18 responses to a Request for Information on possible sources of balancing reserves. This project is on hold.

Wind Forecasting and State Awareness

More accurate wind generation forecasts could greatly reduce costs of wind integration services. BPA is working with other utilities and wind project owners to develop more accurate long-term and short-term wind forecasts.

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