RE integration: Can the UK electricity networks accommodate the 2010 renewable target?
✍ Scribed by Isabel Boira-Segarra; Simon Luby
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-0846
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✦ Synopsis
O
ne of the distinctive features of the study was that it followed a "bottom up" approach to build up renewable power capacity on the networks by taking information provided by project developers on actual projects and longerterm business plans. Some scenario development was undertaken to show plausible ways in which the gap could be bridged between the real projects identified and the Government's 2010 target and 2020 aspiration. All our generation scenarios were modelled to forecast plant operating regimes for both conventional and renewable projects, and the outputs from our market model for each scenario formed the inputs to our network capacity models. We used the PSS/E software package to assess the impact of increasing renewable generation on the transmission networks, and our own in-house generic model to assess the impacts on the distribution networks (Figure 1).
Key Issues for 2010
Is there enough planned capacity in the pipeline? Our research showed that developers' business plans 3 could make up 72% of the 2010 target. Just under half of this includes projects that already have planning permission and those in the application phase in areas with a high chance of achieving planning permission. The remainder, a further 39% of the 2010 target, have not yet applied for planning permission but have a greater than 50% chance of going ahead due to their size and location. According to generators'