| Published | 2010 / 01 |
| Summary | We present the first frequency-dependent analyses of the geographic smoothing of wind power's variability, analyzing the interconnected measured output of 20 wind plants in Texas. Reductions in variability occur at frequencies corresponding to times shorter than 24 h and are quantified by measuring the departure from a Kolmogorov spectrum. At a frequency of 2.8x10-4 Hz (corresponding to 1 h), an 87% reduction of the variability of a single wind plant is obtained by interconnecting 4 wind plants. |
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| Keywords | wind power, wind variability, interconnected wind |
| File name | Elsevier_Katzenstein, Fertig, Apt_2010_The variability of interconnected wind plants.pdf |