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Introduction -- Natural cycles of renewables energy technologies -- Overview -- Hydropower -- Geothermal -- Biomass -- Solar PV -- Wind -- Wave/Tidal -- Integrating wind into electricity grids -- Grid operation and ancillary services -- Wind power aggregation, grid operations and interconnection -- Options for managing intermittency -- Power plants providing operational and capacity reserve -- Storage -- Interconnection with other grids -- Distributed generation -- Demand Side Response (DSR) -- Curtailment of wind farms -- Costs of wind power integration -- Markets for managing intermittency -- DSR in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia -- United States balancing market -- United Kingdom NETA system -- Connection of offshore wind -- Summary and lessons learned -- Technical lessons from integrating wind energy -- Economic and policy lessons -- Conclusions: lessons learned for all renewables. .