Characteristics of Wind and Solar Power For Decision Makers Jay Apt Tepper School of Business and...

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Characteristics of Wind and Solar Power For Decision Makers Jay Apt Tepper School of Business and Department of Engineering & Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University June 13, 2011

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Characteristics of Wind and Solar PowerFor Decision Makers

Jay Apt

Tepper School of Business and

Department of Engineering & Public Policy

Carnegie Mellon University

June 13, 2011

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Briefing given to 2 sets of decision makers

• FERC staff May 26, 2011– Jamie Simler, the Director of FERC’s Office of Energy Policy

and Innovation;– Arnie Quinn, the Director of the Division of Economic and

Technical Analysis within the FERC Office of Energy Policy and Innovation;

– Ed Murrell, the Deputy Director of the Division of Economic and Technical Analysis

– Aaron Bloom, the "forecasting guy" in that office. 

• Equinox Energy Summit June 5-9, 2011– 17 Ontario and Canada federal government ministers and

staff

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Hydroelectric

Wind

Geothermal

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Operating Wind FarmsWind farms > 5 MW

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Land use can be benign

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Or, Not so Benign

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Extreme wind events are much more likely than predicted by Gaussian statistics

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Gaussian (normal) statistics

Actual Texas data

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Wind sometimes fails for many days

5 10 15 20 25 30Date in January 2009

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WM

BPA Balancing Authority Total Wind Generation

Sum of ~1000 turbines

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15 Days of 10-Second Time Resolution Data

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Smoothing by Adding Wind Farms… has diminishing returns

Source: Katzenstein, W., E. Fertig, and J. Apt, The Variability of Interconnected Wind Plants. Energy Policy, 2010. 38(8): 4400-4410.

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Hydroelectric Power has Droughts

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Wind Probably Does Too

Source: Katzenstein, W., E. Fertig, and J. Apt, The Variability of Interconnected Wind Plants.

Energy Policy, 2010. 38(8): 4400-4410.

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Operating Solar PVUnits > 5 MW

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Seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1, 2007k

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Comparison of Wind with Solar PV

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Nameplate capacityCapacity Factor: 19%

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CO2 and NOx from natural gas that fills in

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Firm PowerVariable Power

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Emissions Factors

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Final Comments

• None of this means that wind or solar (if costs ever come down) can't be used at large scale, but wind/solar will require a portfolio of fill-in power (some with very high ramp rates, some with slow), good land use planning, and R&D to optimize emissions control for fast and deep ramping.

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Thank you.

Jay Apt

[email protected]

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