Greening the Grid: Solar and Wind Grid Integration Study for the Luzon-Visayas System of the Philippines

Abstract

With the exception of the magnitude and location of additional solar and wind generation in the high RE scenarios, which were determined based on guidance from the Technical Advisory Committee. b While the site selection approach attempts to select the best resources based upon annual energy production estimates, subject to land use restrictions and other site selection constraints, the method does not solve a mathematical program to optimize the selection of variable RE resources. Additionally, the site selection approach does not evaluate the efficient resource quantity, in absolute terms or relative to existing resources, required to meet system requirements.

Operational Analysis of the Eastern Interconnection at Very High Renewable Penetrations

“…Figure 19 shows the duration curve for non-synchronous penetration on the system. The non-synchronous penetration calculated here is similar to the metric presented in both the Low Carbon Grid Study and Barrows et al (2018); the generation from wind and solar is divided by the sum of the online capacity of non-inverterbased generators (thermal and hydro) and the generation from wind and solar. In the U.S. Eastern Interconnection, all scenarios stay below 75% non-synchronous penetration for all but 1,000 hours of the year.…”

Variable Renewable Energy Grid Integration Studies: A Guidebook for Practitioners

“…• The USAID-funded grid integration study for the Philippines (Barrows et al 2018) uses an hourly solar resource data set for 2014 (time synchronous with load) modeled at 30-km spatial resolution.…”

“…Philippine Department of Energy and United States Agency for International Development (Barrows et al 2018) • Power system: Integrated Luzon and Visayas grids of the Philippines…”

Visualizing the Impacts of Renewable Energy Growth in the U.S. Midcontinent

“…Since MISO participated in ERGIS, the RIIA team found the Kaleidoscope tool to be a good candidate to fulfill MISO's additional needs for data visualization. Whereas NREL has successfully applied Kaleidoscope to other related renewable integration studies [14]- [17], the RIIA team needed to customize the code to suit the needs of MISO and the RIIA study.…”