UWIG Fall Technical Workshop
Wind Integration: Focus on the Value of Wind Forecasting
November 7-9, 2005 - Sacramento, California
The UWIG Fall Technical Workshop explored key issues related to deployment of wind energy across the US with a focus on the Western United States and Canada. It included presentations and discussion on wind forecasting, utility transmission system operation; regional wind developments; and US, Canadian, and European work on wind interconnection and integration. Participants learned about challenges and opportunities for integrating wind power to meet growing demands for clean energy.
The workshop took place along with meetings of the UWIG User Groups and a tour of the California Independent System Operator and local wind facilities.
On this page can be found the agenda and overview presentation for this workshop. The Utility Wind Interest Group, now the Utility Wind Integration Group, is pleased to make available the presentations for the session "Wind Forecasting: What Does it all Mean?"
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Workshop Agenda
Workshop Overview - Charlie Smith, UWIG Executive Director
Technical Session: Wind Forecasting - What Does it all Mean?
Wind Forecasting: The State of the Art and Future Possibilities -
Pascal Storck, 3Tier Environmental Forecast Group
Wind Forecasting PIRP System and CEC Research Project Results - John
Zack, AWS Truewind
Wind Forecasting: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Abraham Ellis,
Public Service New Mexico
Wind Forecasting: The $92 Million
Question - Dick Piwko, GE
Wind Forecasting: A Balancing
Authority View - David Hawkins, California Independent System Operator
Wind Forecasting and the FERC
Imbalance Penalty NOPR - Rob Gramlich, American Wind Energy Association
Wind Forecasting: The Business
Case - Mark Ahlstrom, WindLogics
The rest of the presentations are available to UWIG members only. For information on joining UWIG, click here.