Large Scale Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources

This work presents comprehensive coverage of the means to integrate renewable power, namely wind and solar power. It looks at new approaches to meet the challenges, such as increasing interconnection capacity among geographical areas, hybridization of different distributed energy resources and building up Demand Response capabilities. This book presents an overview of the steps on the way toward 100% clean power, covering approaches like micro-storage and demand response, prosumers and energy communities and including distribution systems and microgrids.

Topics covered include:
- power grid as part of a 100% renewable energy system
- international requirements for large integration of renewable energy sources
- nowcasting and short-term wind forecasting for wind energy management
- solutions and active measures for wind power integration
- grid integration of large-scale PV plants
- extensive use of renewable energy resources: needs, conditions and enabling technologies
- DC distribution systems and microgrids
- distributed energy resources integration and demand response
- stochastic demand modelling
- distributed micro-storage systems at residential level in smart communities with high penetration of photovoltaic generation