TY - GEN
T1 - A methodology to consider combined electrical infrastructure and real-time power-flow impact costs in planning large-scale renewable energy farms
AU - Sukumar, Sreenivas R.
AU - Shankar, Mallikarjun
AU - Olama, Mohammed
AU - Nutaro, James
AU - Malinchik, Sergey
AU - Ives, Barry
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The U.S federal government's strategic vision encouraging renewable energy production has motivated several new energy generation projects. Among them are large-scale renewable energy farm building efforts, where one considers the renewable resource potential along with land, equipment, and installation costs. The goal in the planning phase of these efforts is to maximize the return on investment and resource utilization. The challenge, which is specific to integrating new generation is the need to include the operational cost (both construction as well as run-time) of introducing power to the existing infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a methodology to account for and include energy transmission line proximity (a construction time cost) as well as thermal-overload, and voltage out-of-range (an infrastructure cost) factors when we plan to "tap" into an existing infrastructure. We present results for a study over regions in Texas, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma and discuss the findings.
AB - The U.S federal government's strategic vision encouraging renewable energy production has motivated several new energy generation projects. Among them are large-scale renewable energy farm building efforts, where one considers the renewable resource potential along with land, equipment, and installation costs. The goal in the planning phase of these efforts is to maximize the return on investment and resource utilization. The challenge, which is specific to integrating new generation is the need to include the operational cost (both construction as well as run-time) of introducing power to the existing infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a methodology to account for and include energy transmission line proximity (a construction time cost) as well as thermal-overload, and voltage out-of-range (an infrastructure cost) factors when we plan to "tap" into an existing infrastructure. We present results for a study over regions in Texas, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma and discuss the findings.
KW - Energy planning
KW - Power-flow costs
KW - Renewable energy integration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650162539&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617942
DO - 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617942
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78650162539
SN - 9781424452866
T3 - 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings
SP - 674
EP - 678
BT - 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings
T2 - 2010 2nd IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010
Y2 - 12 September 2010 through 16 September 2010
ER -