Studies on the reliability and reserve capacity of electric power system with wind power integration

The reliability of power system will obviously be influenced by wind farms connected because of the volatility of wind power. With the increase of wind power penetration, it's necessary to research the influence of wind power integration on the reliability level of system and how much reserve capacity should we increase in order to stabilize the influence of wind power on power system reliability. In this paper a reliability evaluation model is built by Monte Carlo method and also a reserve optimization model, which can be used to analyze changes of system reliability in conditions of different grid-connected wind farms, and to find out the optimum of system reserve to achieve unifying the maximum utilization of new energy and meanwhile high reliability of power system.