1. Impact of transmission on resource adequacy in systems with wind and solar power
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Eduardo Ibanez and Michael Milligan
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Electric power system ,Stand-alone power system ,Power transmission ,Engineering ,Wind power ,Power station ,business.industry ,Distributed generation ,Western Interconnection ,business ,Solar power ,Reliability engineering - Abstract
Variable generation is on track to become a significant contributor to electric power systems worldwide. Thus, it is important to analyze the effect that renewables will have on the reliability of systems. In this paper we present a new tool being implemented at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which allows the inclusion of variable generation in the power system resource adequacy. The tool is used to quantify a first estimate of the potential contribution of transmission to reliability in highly interconnected systems and an example is provided using the Western Interconnection footprint.
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- 2012
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