Renewable Electricity Futures: Operational Analysis of the Western Interconnection at Very High Renewable Penetrations

Brinkman, Gregory

2015

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The Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures) was an analysis of the costs and grid impacts of integrating large amounts of renewable electricity generation into the U.S. power system (Mai et al. 2012). RE Futures examined renewable energy resources, technical issues regarding the integration of these resources into the grid, and the costs associated with high renewable penetration scenarios. However, a small number of studies have been done on real systems using the detailed methodologies mentioned above, and few have looked at total renewable penetrations (including hydropower) over 80% for an entire interconnection. This study aimed to use detailed methods (including sub-hourly production cost modeling) to analyze operations of the grid at sub-hourly time scales for penetration levels above 80% in the Western Interconnection.

Distribución de energía; Estados Unidos; Generación de energía eléctrica; Redes electricas inteligentes;