Reliability Assessment of Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Systems Containing Wind Farms

Considering the features of sequentiality and self-correlation of wind speed, an auto-regressive and moving average (ARMA) model for wind speed is built. Combining with the state models of conventional generating units, transmission lines and transformers, a Monte Carlo simulation based wind farm reliability model is established to perform reliability assessment of power generation and transmission system containing wind farm, meanwhile, a multi-state service provider (MSP) model of power generation and transmission system is built; combining the MSP model with distribution system, the reliability indices of distribution network such as average interruption frequency and interruption caused electricity loss are calculated. By means of comparing and analyzing the reliability indices, the impact of wind farm on distribution system is researched and the results show that interconnection of wind farm with power grid can play a certain role in the improvement of power system reliability.