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Optimising for Wind Power Contributions in an Electricity Grid

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Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008

Part of the book series: Mathematics in Industry ((TECMI,volume 15))

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This paper is based on a Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group project from MISG 2007 in Wollongong. This project considered management issues for a national electric power grid that may arise as a result of using larger amounts of wind power generation. The variability of this power source has implications for both the maintenance of power supply and its transmission upon finite capacity power lines. A number of approaches and simple models were used to study these aspects of production and transmission.

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  1. Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

    Winston L. Sweatman

  2. Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Geoff Pritchard & Kim Nan

  3. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Bill Whiten

  4. Statistics New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand

    Mike Camden

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  1. Winston L. Sweatman
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Correspondence to Winston L. Sweatman .

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom

    Alistair D. Fitt

  2. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, St. Giles 24-29, Oxford, OX1 3LB, United Kingdom

    John Norbury

  3. Mathematical Institute, Ctr for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford, St. Giles 24-29, Oxford, OX1 3LB, United Kingdom

    Hilary Ockendon

  4. Dept. Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol, BS8 1TR, United Kingdom

    Eddie Wilson

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Sweatman, W.L., Pritchard, G., Whiten, B., Camden, M., Nan, K. (2010). Optimising for Wind Power Contributions in an Electricity Grid. In: Fitt, A., Norbury, J., Ockendon, H., Wilson, E. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2008. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12110-4_165

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