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Informationen zum Autor Ken Dragoon is currently Research Director of Renewable Northwest Project in Portland! Oregon. He has more than 25 years in the electric utility industry with expertise in power system planning studies! resource valuation analysis! and renewable resource acquistion. He is the autor of several papers ranging from wind integration and streamflow forecasting to the relative capacity contribution of power plants. He holds a Master's degree in physics from the University of New Hampshire. Klappentext Wind powered generation is the fastest growing energy source in the United States due to a combination of economic incentives! the government¿s drive for renewable energy! competitive costs! and the need to address global warming. The economic consequences of the relative variability and lower predictability of wind generation are not easily captured in standard economic analyses performed by utility planners. This book provides utility analysts and regulators a practical framework for analyzing the value of wind generation in the context of modern power systems. Guiding the reader through the steps to understanding and valuing wind generation on modern power systems! this book approaches the issue from a variety of perspectives! supported by case studies. Ken Dragoon outlines the basic procedures of a wind valuation study! with enough detail so that analysts spanning a range of resources and sophistication can undertake a competent study. Descriptions of studies performed by other utilities are also provided! explaining their varying approaches. Zusammenfassung Wind powered generation is the fastest growing energy source in the United States due to a combination of economic incentives, public preference for renewable energy as expressed in government policies, competitive costs, and the need to address global warming. This book analyzes the value of wind generation in the context of modern power systems....
