1. The Impacts of Transmission Topology Control on the European Electricity Network.
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Han, Jinil and Papavasiliou, Anthony
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ELECTRIC power systems , *ELECTRIC power transmission , *VOLTAGE regulators , *ELECTRIC power production , *ELECTRICAL energy , *ELECTRIC utilities , *ELECTRIC power distribution , *ELECTRICAL engineering - Abstract
The European Union is targeting a 20% share of energy from renewable resources by 2020, and this increase is in turn expected to lead to operational challenges that will require various congestion management actions by system operators. In this paper, we deal with topology control of the transmission network as a congestion management resource and evaluate the impacts of topology control on the European electricity network. To do this, we co-optimize unit commitment and transmission switching over 24 h, and we use a decomposition scheme to tackle the resulting large-scale problem. Our analysis is conducted on different scenarios of load and renewable power generation. We find that topology control results in significant cost savings within Europe which tend to be inversely related to net load. The robustness of our results is supported by an extensive sensitivity analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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