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DOI	10.2172/108200
报告编号	ORNL--6827
来源ID	OSTI_ID: 108200
	The integration of renewable energy sources into electric power transmission systems
	Barnes, P.R.; Dykas, W.P.; Kirby, B.J.; Purucker, S.L. [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)]; Lawler, J.S. [Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)]
英文摘要	Renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaics, solar thermal power plants, and wind turbines are nonconventional, environmentally attractive sources of energy that can be considered for electric power generation. Many of the areas with abundant renewable energy resources (very sunny or windy areas) are far removed from major load centers. Although electrical power can be transmitted over long distances of many hundreds of miles through high-voltage transmission lines, power transmission systems often operate near their limits with little excess capacity for new generation sources. This study assesses the available capacity of transmission systems in designated abundant renewable energy resource regions and identifies the requirements for high-capacity plant integration in selected cases. In general, about 50 MW of power from renewable sources can be integrated into existing transmission systems to supply local loads without transmission upgrades beyond the construction of a substation to connect to the grid. Except in the Southwest, significant investment to strengthen transmission systems will be required to support the development of high-capacity renewable sources of 1000 MW or greater in areas remote from major load centers. Cost estimates for new transmission facilities to integrate and dispatch some of these high-capacity renewable sources ranged from several million dollars to approximately one billion dollars, with the latter figure an increase in total investment of 35%, assuming that the renewable source is the only user of the transmission facility.
出版年	1995
报告类型	Technical Report
语种	英语
国家	美国
来源学科分类	14 SOLAR ENERGY ; 17 WIND ENERGY ; 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION ; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES ; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT ; POWER SYSTEMS ; CAPACITY ; LOAD MANAGEMENT ; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS ; POWER TRANSMISSION ; WIND POWER ; SOLAR ENERGY ; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS ; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS ; WIND TURBINES
URL	http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/108200
资源类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/266216
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Barnes, P.R.,Dykas, W.P.,Kirby, B.J.,et al. The integration of renewable energy sources into electric power transmission systems,1995.