Research on the Peaking Gap of Power System with Large-Scale Wind Power Integration

An important factor affecting the integration of large-scale wind power is whether there is sufficient peaking capacity. If the peaking capacity is insufficient, we cannot make full use of wind power. Therefore it’s of great significance to study the peaking gap of the power system. This paper defined the peak-load regulating demand continuous curve and proposed the calculation method of the peaking gap based on non-sequential Monte Carlo simulation method. Taking wind power’s random fluctuation and the unit forced outage rate into consideration, the calculation method effectively reflect the peaking capacity needs of the system, which is helpful for determining the appropriate wind power integration.