Abstract :
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.
