Wind Integration in ISO New England
EEEL 4220 Fall 2024 Project 1
1 Introduction
You take the position of a policy maker to provide policy suggestions to decarbonize ISO New England
and are given the attached one-bus system model and. Details about this system model are explained
in the attached paper. Note the model in this paper has 8 buses with no transmission limits, so it is
equivalent to a single-bus model (ISO New England has minor congestion issues).
ISONE expects to install a total wind generation capacity of 12,000 MW by 2030 and would like to
study how to best integrate wind generation. You are provided with one week (168 hours) of data
including wind generation capacity factors and demand. The wind generator capacity factor is a
normalized value between zero to one representation ratio between the actual wind generation and the
installed wind capacity over each hour.
2 Project Objective
Please finish a report summarizing how to best integrate up to 12,000 MW of wind generation into
the system and how the wind generation would impact the system operating cost. You should explore
three levels of wind capacity:
• Low: 2,000 MW
• Medium: 6,000 MW
• High: 12,000 MW
You need to implement a unit commitment simulation and explore approaches that could improve the
wind integration ratio, these approaches include but are not limited to
• Add carbon tax that increases the cost of traditional generators. You can use the EIA website
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to look up emission factors of different fuel types.
• Add tax incentives for wind integration, in this case, you should add a negative cost of wind
generation w
t
to the objective function.
• Retirement of coal power plants.
At each scenario, use the following indexes to compare the system performance
• The total generation cost.
• The wind curtailment ratio - the ratio between the wind that was not integrated into the system
(W
t
− w
t
) to the total wind capacity available (W
t
).
• Profits received by generators.
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https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
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