Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 1: Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Electricity Futures

Mai, Trieu; Wiser, Ryan; Sandor, Debbie; Brinkman, Gregory; Heath, Garvin; Denholm, Paul; Hostick, Donna J.; Darghouth, Naïm; Schlosser, Adam; Strzepek, Kenneth

doi:10.2172/1046880

Cited by 64 publications

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“…Non-combustion lifecycle emission estimates were developed through a comprehensive literature assessment. For further details, see DOE (2015) and Mai et al (2012). 1 We then estimate the economic benefits of wind due to limiting climate-change damages using the SCC.…”

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Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

et al. 2016

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We model scenarios of the U.S. electric sector in which wind generation reaches 10% of end-use electricity demand in 2020, 20% in 2030, and 35% in 2050. As shown in a companion paper, achieving these penetration levels would have significant implications for the wind industry and the broader electric sector. Compared to a baseline that assumes no new wind deployment, under the primary scenario modeled, achieving these penetrations imposes an incremental cost to electricity consumers of less than 1% through 2030. These cost implications, however, should be balanced against the variety of environmental and social implications of such a scenario. Relative to a baseline that assumes no new wind deployment, our analysis shows that the high-penetration wind scenario yields potential greenhouse-gas benefits of $85-$1,230 billion in present-value terms, with a central estimate of $400 billion. Air-pollution-related health benefits are estimated at $52-$272 billion, while annual electricsector water withdrawals and consumption are lower by 15% and 23% in 2050, respectively. We also find that a high-wind-energy future would have implications for the diversity and risk of energy supply, local economic development, and land use and related local impacts on communities and ecosystems; however, these additional impacts may not greatly affect aggregate social welfare owing to their nature, in part, as resource transfers.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

et al. 2016

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“…By simplifying two equations in Equation (2) and eliminating ui(s), the relationship between terminal voltage u, current i and command current i* is obtained as:…”

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“…Grid-connected power generation scale of renewable energy sources, like wind energy and solar energy, is continuously expanding, and renewable energy sources connected to grid with high penetration will become an important trend of future electric power system [1][2][3][4]. With higher penetration of renewable energy power generation in electric power system, short-circuit currents injected by them during short-circuit fault will increase current at fault point, and consequently, electrical equipment are faced with higher requirements for dynamic and thermal stability [5].…”

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Three-Phase Short-Circuit Current Calculation of Power Systems with High Penetration of VSC-Based Renewable Energy

Zhou

Wang

2018

Energies

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Short-circuit current level of power grid will be increased with high penetration of VSC-based renewable energy, and a strong coupling between transient fault process and control strategy will change the fault features. The full current expression of VSC-based renewable energy was obtained according to transient characteristics of short-circuit current. Furtherly, by analyzing the closed-loop transfer function model of controller and current source characteristics presented in steady state during a fault, equivalent circuits of VSC-based renewable energy of fault transient state and steady state were proposed, respectively. Then the correctness of the theory was verified by experimental tests. In addition, for power grid with VSC-based renewable energy, superposition theorem was used to calculate AC component and DC component of short-circuit current, respectively, then the peak value of short-circuit current was evaluated effectively. The calculated results could be used for grid planning and design, short-circuit current management as well as adjustment of relay protection. Based on comparing calculation and simulation results of 6-node 500 kV Huainan power grid and 35-node 220 kV Huaisu power grid, the effectiveness of the proposed method was verified.

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“…RPM can be used to explore optimal capacity expansion in scenarios with very different electricity import/export dynamics, which can be essential to efficiently integrating large amounts of renewable electricity (DOE 2012, Mai et al 2012. To do this, electricity generation and demand in boundary regions must be modeled in appropriate detail.…”

Section: Electricity Imports and Exportsmentioning

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Resource Planning Model: An Integrated Resource Planning and Dispatch Tool for Regional Electric Systems

Mai¹,

Drury²,

Newman³

et al. 2013

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Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 1: Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Electricity Futures

Cited by 64 publications

References 72 publications

Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

Long-term implications of sustained wind power growth in the United States: Potential benefits and secondary impacts

Three-Phase Short-Circuit Current Calculation of Power Systems with High Penetration of VSC-Based Renewable Energy

Resource Planning Model: An Integrated Resource Planning and Dispatch Tool for Regional Electric Systems

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