19 Rules for Transmission: Lessons Learned in Wind Generation [In My View]

In 2002 when the midwest independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) started to address wind integration issues, dominate attitudes prevailed that wind was too intermittent to be a major source of power and energy. Wind was forecast to never provide more than 10,000 MW of connected generation in the MISO and SPP areas. Today, MISO alone has 10,000 MW of wind connected to the transmission system. The major driver was that MISO and others adopted the attitude to determine what could be done with wind generation and not what could not be done with wind generation. The lessons learned to date are discussed in this article.