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SIMULATION RESULTS

The proposed WF and BESS dispatch strategy is tested using the realistic WF generation
(derived using historical wind speed data at the weather station near Capital WF, New South Wales,
Australia The rated capacity of the Capital WF is140 MW. The wind speed data of the two typical
winter days are used for testing the proposed algorithm. The wind speed data of 5-min time interval and
the hourly dispatch interval of the energy market are considered for this study and each generation unit
is expected to submit its 24-h dispatch schedule for the following day to the energy market operator.
The maximum and minimum values (up to 99.74% probability of forecasting error from the mean
value) of the forecasted WF generation and the energy price for each time interval used for this study
are shown in Fig. 5. The developed BESS dispatch strategy to mitigate the WF generation fluctuation is
implemented using MATLAB and LINGO software.
A BESS of 400-MWh energy storage capacity along with the considered WF is used to investigate
the performance of the developed algorithm to mitigate the WF generation fluctuation. The energy
storage capacity of BESS is selected to provide support for around 3 h during no or low WF generation
output. The total energy storage capacity is distributed among 16 parallel BESUs. The charging and
discharging efficiencies of each BESU are considered to be 80% for this study.
The maximum DOD used for this study is considered to be 80% and hence each BESU can be
discharged up to 20% of themaximum SOC. The scheduled and realized dispatched output power of the
combined WF and BESS are simulated using a deterministic optimization model and the proposed
stochastic programming model and the results are presented in Fig. 6.
In Fig. 6(a), the dotted line and solid bars represent the scheduled dispatch output power of the
BESS-integrated WF estimated using the deterministic and stochastic programming
Wind farm using BESS

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