A user interface tool for ramping behavior analysis of renewable energy

Abstract

Significant increase in the proportion of uncertain and variable wind and solar power in the electric grid has increased the undesirable effects on the voltage, frequency and transient stability. Identifying the fluctuations, particularly for the renewable resources of energy results in more reliable and cost effective use of the resources. In addition, the capacity building and forecasting can be more accurate. This paper proposes an algorithm to demonstrate the ramping behavior of the wind and solar power. In addition, a user interface tool is designed and developed in the MATLAB platform, which fastens the visualization and inference of the power variation events in multiple perspectives.