This paper evaluates the economic benefits to over-installing turbines on wind farm sites in order to capture more energy at low wind speeds. Although this implies curtailment at high wind speeds, we show that oversizing generation facilities can increase returns to investors and reduce system...

An evolutionary programming approach is used for the techno-economic analysis of a wind farm coupled with a pumped storage facility. The optimal day-ahead generating schedule is considered. Wind forecasts contain an element of random error, and several methods of addressing this uncertainty in...