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Increasing Wind Capacity Value in Tasmania Using Wind and Hydro Power Coordination Mehdi Mosadeghy, Student Member, IEEE, Tapan Kumar Saha, Senior Member, IEEE and Ruifeng Yan, Member, IEEE School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract—Wind power penetration is increasing in power system adequacy assessment [4]-[6], and some others have considered in many countries. To mitigate wind power fluctuations and wind power as a negative load [7]. It has been shown that the maximize clean energy utilization, coordinating wind and hydro impacts of wind power on the reliability of power system power is proposed in the literature. This paper investigates the depends on many factors such as correlation between wind benefits of coordinating hydro generators with wind farms, from speed and system load, wind regime, wind power penetration reliability point of view in Tasmania, Australia. Reliability level, etc. [8]. indices are computed in generation system adequacy assessment using the state sampling Monte Carlo technique. In accordance Tasmania is an island state of Australia, where the with these indices the capacity value of Tasmania’s wind power majority of its power production is from renewable energy is calculated and the impact of hydro power coordination on this resources. Power generation in Tasmania is currently almost value is demonstrated. The results show that using hydro units entirely produced by hydro generation with a total installed to support wind power will improve the capacity value of the capacity of 2,300MW [1]. Installed wind generation capacity wind farms regarding their wind regime and the combined is already around 140 MW with a further 500MW under capacity. construction or publicly announced for future development Tasmania has the potential for high wind penetration levels Index Terms— Capacity value, Reliability evaluation, [9]. Coordinating the output of some existing hydro units with Tasmanian power system, Wind and hydro generation wind farms can balance the wind power fluctuations and coordination. increase the benefits of wind farms. Power system reliability in the presence of wind-hydro coordination has been studied in I. INTRODUCTION [10] and [11]. Hydro units were considered as peak time Implementation of policies such as Large-scale Renewable generators in [10] and it was shown that coordinating wind Energy Target (LRET) and carbon pricing in Australia will be and hydro can improve system’s adequacy when a proper important regulatory drivers for renewable generation over the number of hydro units are designated to support wind farms. next 10 years. Based on current renewable energy costs, wind Wind power is utilized in [11] to store water in hydro power could be the main renewable generation technology [1]. reservoirs during off peak periods, which can be used at a later However, the intermittency of wind means that integrating time by the hydro station to produce its highest capacity large scale wind power will affect many aspects of power during peak load times when electricity has a higher value. system. Evaluating the contribution of wind generators in the From a reliability perspective, significant work has been system adequacy of the Tasmanian power system is essential undertaken to study the effects of wind power integration on due to the expected increase in the wind power penetration system reliability using analytic and probabilistic methods level in Tasmania. This paper investigates the capacity value [2]–[8]. Reliability indices for different wind speed models of wind power in Tasmania using the Woolnorth and such as Markov Chain, Normal distribution and autoregressive Musselroe wind farms which have different wind regimes. moving average (ARMA) time series were compared in [2] Wind power is modeled as a negative load and the state using Monte Carlo simulation and analytical method. Some sampling Monte Carlo simulation method is applied to population-based intelligent (PIS) procedures were applied in calculate reliability indices for the Tasmanian power system. [3] to search the system states and obtain the reliability indices This work also explains the impact of hydro power in the presence of wind generators. Some studies have adopted coordination with different allocated capacities on the wind different multistate models for wind power in system power capacity value in Tasmania. 978-1-4799-1303-9/13/$31.00 ©2013 IEEE The Tasmanian power system is briefly described in The statistical values of wind speed data from 2006 to Section II. Section III describes the model of coordinating 2012 for these sites provided by Australian Bureau of wind and hydro power. In Section IV, the wind capacity value Meteorology are presented in Table I. Fig. 2 illustrates the is calculated for Tasmanian wind farms and the impact of wind speed probability distributions for Woolnorth and wind–hydro coordination on Tasmanian wind capacity value is Musselroe sites during winter months. evaluated. Finally, conclusions are summarized in Section V. II. TASMANIAN POWER SYSTEM A. General Information Tasmania has a total installed generating capacity of 2,800 MW and is connected to mainland Australia via a single HVDC undersea link with an export capacity of 630 MW. Tasmania generates most of its electricity from hydro with total installed capacity around 2,300MW and also has around 386MW of gas-fired generation. [1]. Figure 2. Winter wind speed probability distibution for Woolnorth and Musselroe sites from 2007 to 2012 III. COORDINATING WIND AND HYDRO UNITS Hydroelectric power is the major source of electricity in Tasmania with 27 hydro power stations, generating around 10,000 GWh of electricity annually [9]. This presents an ideal opportunity for the Tasmanian power system to coordinate hydro-electric and wind power generation to balance wind power variations and maximize the renewable energy Figure 1. Mean value of Tasmania hourly winter load for over 6 years utilization. Among Tasmanian hydro stations, the Gordon (2007-2012) scheme located in the southern part of Tasmania is considered to be ideal for coordination with wind power. The Gordon Tasmania peak load generally occurs during winter. station has the highest hydro installed capacity in Tasmania Fig.1shows the average value of Tasmania hourly load in [1] comprising three 144MW units supplied with water from June, July and August for over 6 years from 2007 to 2012 Lake Gordon [14]. Fig. 3 displays the location of Woolnorth [12]. It can be seen that the hourly load profile consists of two and Musselroe wind sites and the Gordon hydro station in peak periods and the average load during July is higher than Tasmania. other months. B. Wind Data Tasmania is geographically located within the 'Roaring Forties'; latitudes with some of the most reliable winds on earth [9]. Tasmania currently has around 140 MW of wind power installed at the Woolnorth wind farm. Construction of the 168 MW Musselroe wind farm is expected to be completed by June 2013[1]. A further 330 MW of new wind power proposals are publicly announced [13]. TABLE I. WIND SPEED STATISTICAL DATA OF 6 YEARS FOR WOOLNORTH AND MUSSELROE SITES Site Mean (m/s) Standard Deviation (m/s) Woolnorth 9.73 4.94 Musselroe 6.80 3.65 Figure 3. Locations of Gordon hydro station and Tasmanian wind farms In this paper the Gordon hydro station is coordinated with Tasmanian wind farms in a daily energy balancing policy. During off peak periods the wind farm produces power and is described as in Fig.5.The first step requires the system load the hydro units decrease electricity production which to be clustered into 20 levels using the K-means method [17]. effectively stores water in its reservoir. During peak load Table II represents the 20-step load levels for the Tasmanian periods, the Gordon hydro power station could generate power system during winter from 2007 to 2010. The load additional power using the stored water to maximize its output levels are in per unit of the 1,800 MW peak load. when electricity usually has a higher value. However, some factors such as wind regime, load profile and storage constraints need to be considered to coordinate wind and hydro generation [11]. Fig. 4 shows the water level in the Gordon hydro station reservoir during 2010 and 2011 [15]. It can be seen that the reservoir typically drops to lower levels during winter. Figure 5. Capacity value of Woolnorth wind farm This clustered load and the state sampling Monte Carlo method are utilized to obtain the LOEE index for the Tasmanian power system without the wind farm. The dashed Figure 4. Gordon Reservoir levels in 2010 and 2011[15] line in Fig. 5 illustrates the loss of energy expectation for different extra loads added to the power system. It can be seen IV. CAPACITY VALUE OF WIND FARMS that LOEE is around 200 MWh/yr. for 1,800 MW peak load (no extra load). The capacity value is generally defined as the effective load carrying capability. This value represents the amount of TABLE II. THE 20-STEP LOAD LEVEL MODEL FOR TASMANIAN load that can be added to power system at a defined reliability SYSTEM WITHOUT WIND POWER level in presence of a new generator [16]. The calculation Step Load Level Step Load Level Probability Probability method and required data are described in [7] and [16]. No. (p.u.) No. (p.u.) In this paper loss of energy expectation (LOEE) is defined 1 0.5224 0.0164 11 0.7291 0.0674 as the reliability index to determine the capacity value of wind 2 0.5499 0.0314 12 0.7484 0.0734 farms in Tasmania. LOEE is the expected energy not supplied 3 0.5734 0.0417 13 0.7680 0.0707 while load exceeds the available generating capacity.

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