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ELECTRICITY GENERATED FROM WIND POWER WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE in the future energy supply in many countries. This implies the need to integrate this power into the existing electricity supply system, which was mainly designed for large units of fossil fuel and nuclear power stations. Wind power has different characteristics and therefore this integration leads to some important challenges from the point of view of the electricity system. The availability of the power supply generated from wind energy varies fundamentally from that generated conventionally from fossil fuels. The most important difference is that wind power generation depends on the availability of the wind; i.e., it is weather dependent. In the...