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Utility-Scale Wind Power: Impacts of Increased Penetration (working paper)
Author: Pitt, Lawrence; et al.
By Lawrence Pitt, G. Cornelis van Kooten, Murray Love, and Ned Djilali, Resource and Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA) Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada).
“The effective capacity credit for wind is difficult to generalize, as it is a highly site-specific quantity determined by the correlation between wind resource and load. Values range from 26% to 0% of rated capacity. …
“A distinctive feature of wind power is the signature of diminishing returns with increasing wind penetration, . . .
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