The variability of wind-generated electricity can be reduced by aggregating the outputs of wind generation plants spread over a large geographic area. In this chapter we utilize Monte Carlo simulations to investigate upper bounds on the degree of achievable smoothing and clarify how the degree of smoothing depends on the number of plants and on the size of the geographic area over which they are spread.
@article{arxiv.1608.06257,
title = {Reduction of wind power variability through geographic diversity},
author = {Mark Handschy and Stephen Rose and Jay Apt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06257},
year = {2016}
}
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12 pages, 9 figures, Chapter 12 from Variable Renewable Energy and the Electricity Grid, by Jay Apt and Paulina Jaramillo, RFF/Routledge. 2014