Analysis of 2030 Large-Scale Wind Energy Integration in the Eastern Interconnection Using WINS

A simulation of the 2030 load forecast in the Eastern Interconnection suggests that large-scale wind energy integration will have a major impact on the hourly commitment and dispatch of gas and coal units, especially at off-peak load hours. While fuel price alterations will have major impacts on the system production cost, load variation will have a larger impact and potential carbon costs will have the greatest impact.