Transmitting Renewable Energy to the Grid : The Case of Texas

The note is based on original work by Marcelino Madrigal and Steven Stoft, "Transmission Expansion for Renewable Energy Scale-Up: Emerging Lessons and Recommendations". Texas leads the United States with 9,528 MW of installed wind power capacity, a level exceeded by only four countries. The state needed more infrastructure to transmit electricity generated from renewable sources, but the regulator could not approve transmission expansion projects in the absence of financially committed generators. To solve the problem, Texas devised a planning process that quickly connects energy systems to the transmission system. The system is based on the designation of competitive renewable energy zones.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Madrigal, Marcelino, Jordan, Rhonda Lenai
Format:	Brief biblioteca
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014-02-24
Subjects:	approach, availability, biomass, BOTTOM LINE, capacity expansion, coal, congestion, electric grid, electricity, energy generation, energy mix, energy resource, energy systems, energy technologies, energy utilities, environmental benefits, environmental impacts, fuel, generating capacity, natural gas, nonrenewable resources, petroleum, renewable energy, renewable energy generation, renewable energy program, renewable generation, renewable portfolio standard, renewable resources, renewable sources, renewables, transmission capacity, transmission facilities, transmission infrastructure, transmission system, utilities, wind, wind capacity, wind farms, wind generation, wind power, wind power capacity, wind sites,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17142
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