Impact of wind power on commercial and physical flows within the CWE region

Abstract

The paper aims at providing better understanding of the discrepancy between commercial and physical interconnection capacity for electricity. Loop flows, expected loop flows and the ways to deal with it constitute the focus of the discrepancy analysis. Apart from investigating the uncertainty aspect of loop flows, the variability and relative unpredictability of wind power are also analysed in the light of loop flows. The Central West Europe region is used as a practical case.