It is important to develop an appropriate method to estimate the reliability contribution of adding wind farm to the generation systems. However
the single wind model neglects the correlation between the wind and the load
and therefore results in great error.This paper proposes a general method to calculate the reliability of the generation system containing wind farm based on the sub-period wind model
that is
the parameters of each sub-period is calculated according to its time characteristics.Also
the reason for the difference between the single wind model and the sub-period wind model is given
together with the effect of the correlation between the wind and the load on the reliability calculation.Finally
an example is given to verify the correctness of the analysis.