Integration Workshop
The Current Status and Future of Wind and the Grid
Friday January 21, 2011Wind energy contributes to an ever-growing percentage of electricity generation worldwide. While places like Denmark, Spain and Germany have already reached aggressive levels of wind adoption (contributing to near 20%, 10% and 8% of their respective electricity generaiton needs resepectively), the US has had far less development on a national scale. However, on a regional scale, wind development in midwestern states, Texas and California has also been considerable. The increased overall percentage of electricity generation that comes from this intermittent resource has led to a lot of discussion over the last decade on the furture development of the grid and the impacts and implications of large scale wind energy development. This workshop will bring several experts in the area of wind-grid integration to MIT for a full day workshop that will explore issues from short-term grid code specificaitons to long-term capacity expansion planning and policy.
The MIT Energy Club's Wind Energy Group and MIT Wind Energy Projects in Action are proud to bring you this workshop which will feature the below agenda as well as an informal post-workshop networking reception.
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