Developing a Mathematical Model for Evaluating the Capacity Credit of Wind Generation in Egypt

Abstract

This thesis introduces a reliability-based methodology to evaluate the capacity credit value resulted from the integration of wind energy to the power systems. A computational model has been developed for the calculation of the capacity credit. The approach adopted in this model is to evaluate the Capacity Credit (CC) of a WECS by evaluating its positive impact on a chosen reliability index, which is the Loss of Load Expectation (LOLE). The Capacity Outage Probability Table (COPT) is used to evaluate LOLE without the Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) and then re-evaluated again after adding the WECS. The observed improve