Conditions and costs for renewables electricity grid connection: Examples in Europe

Swider, Derk Jan; Beurskens, L.W.M.; Davidson, Sarah; Twidell, John; Pyrko, Jurek; Prüggler, Wolfgang; Auer, Hans; Vertin, Katarina; Skema, Romualdas

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2007.11.005

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“…Afghanistan [82]. Community micro-hydro in Afghanistan (48 MW), Nepal (22 MW), Sri-Lanka (2 MW) and Indonesia (21 MW) are already providing an array of basic energy needs to thousands of households.…”

Section: Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…al. [82], the main factors affecting the deployment of DERs are site conditions, grid connection issues, generation costs, feed-in tariffs and support schemes as well as the allocation of the costs. Furthermore, scarcity of public and/or private space needed to install the power generating units as well as the temporal availability of the resources present challenges for ICESs [79].…”

Section: Key Issues With Implementation and Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Koirala

Koliou

Friege

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Energy systems across the globe are going through a radical transformation as a result of technological and institutional changes, depletion of fossil fuel resources, and climate change. At the local level, increasing distributed energy resources requires that the centralized energy systems be re-organized. In this paper, the concept of Integrated Community Energy Systems (ICESs) is presented as a modern development to re-organize local energy systems to integrate distributed energy resources and engage local communities. Local energy systems such as ICESs not only ensure self-provision of energy but also provide essential system services to the larger energy system. In this regard, a comparison of different energy system integration option is provided. We review the current energy trends and the associated technological, socio-economic, environmental and institutional issues shaping the development of ICESs. These systems can be applied to both developed and developing countries, however, their objectives, business models as well as composition differs. ICESs can be accepted by different actors such as local governments, communities, energy suppliers and system operators as an effective means to achieve sustainability and thereby will have significant roles in future energy systems.

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Section: Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Key Issues With Implementation and Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Koirala

Koliou

Friege

et al. 2016

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

618

330

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“…The costs of connecting a power plant to the existing grid are usually included in capital costs, as a power plant developer usually needs to bear these costs [18,19]. In relation to the total capital costs (including connection costs), grid connection costs are usually low for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, as well as for biomass and solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, with shares typically lower than 5% [20,21]. However, connection costs can be more relevant for other types of plants, such as onshore and offshore wind power plants, as these are often built further away from existing grids and their locations can be difficult to access.…”

Section: Capital Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Social Costs of Electricity Generation—Categorising Different Types of Costs and Evaluating Their Respective Relevance

Samadi

2017

Energies

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Various electricity generation technologies using different primary energy sources are available. Many published studies compare the costs of these technologies. However, most of those studies only consider plant-level costs and do not fully take into account additional costs that societies may face in using these technologies. This article reviews the literature on the costs of electricity generation technologies, aiming to determine which types of costs are relevant from a societal point of view when comparing generation technologies. The paper categorises the relevant types of costs, differentiating between plant-level, system and external costs as the main categories. It discusses the relevance of each type of cost for each generation technology. The findings suggest that several low-carbon electricity generation technologies exhibit lower social costs per kWh than the currently dominant technologies using fossil fuels. More generally, the findings emphasise the importance of taking not only plant-level costs, but also system and external costs, into account when comparing electricity generation technologies from a societal point of view. The article intends to inform both policymakers and energy system modellers, the latter who may strive to include all relevant types of costs in their models.

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“…Firms would then have to pay 'deep connection charges', that is, they would need to pay for upgrade costs caused in the entire network. Swider et al (2008) argue that grid connection costs of renewable energy should be socialized. A related discussion is how network cost should be allocated between countries when there are imports, exports and transit flows (Olmos Camacho and Pérez-Arriaga 2007).…”

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Cost Recovery in Congested Electricity Networks

Pepermans¹,

Willems

2010

Z Energiewirtsch

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Large scale investments in European electricity networks are foreseen in the next decade. Pricing the network at marginal cost will not be sufficient to pay for those investments as the network is a natural monopoly. This paper derives numerically the socially optimal transmission prices for cost recovery, taking into account that electricity networks are often congested, while allowing for market power in generation. The model is illustrated with a Stackelberg game for the Belgian electricity market.

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Conditions and costs for renewables electricity grid connection: Examples in Europe

Cited by 97 publications

References 14 publications

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

Energetic communities for community energy: A review of key issues and trends shaping integrated community energy systems

The Social Costs of Electricity Generation—Categorising Different Types of Costs and Evaluating Their Respective Relevance

Cost Recovery in Congested Electricity Networks

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