Proactive participation of wind turbines in the electricity markets

In line with an increasing penetration of wind production (planned in more countries to be up to 50% of yearly electricity demand within a few years), questions about the impacts and costs associated with maintaining a stable grid is receiving growing attention.
An increasing share of wind energy in the electrical grid results in growing demand for more balancing power and in higher balancing costs. In this project is made field tests that demonstrate that wind turbines themselves may deliver an important part of the balancing tasks needed, thus reducing high imbalance prices and promoting the development of wind energy in Europe.
Recommendations are made to make it manageable for wind turbines themselves to offer activation in the balancing power markets, as well as making it manageable for other distributed generators to participate in the balancing of wind productions.