New Transmission Lines Will Transport Wind Power To Centres Of Demand

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According to the report "Renewable Integration and Balancing Issues" available at www.reportbuyer.com/go/RBI00500 discusses energy storage, structural costs, grid integration, and operational considerations in renewable energy. The last decade has seen a rapid growth in the generation of electric power from renewable sources. While international agreement on action to combat global warming remains elusive, many countries and regions are pursuing their own renewable policies with the result that all types of renewable generating technology have benefited.

Hydropower aside, much of this new renewable capacity is from wind turbines which were responsible for 121GW of the 2008 total. Small hydropower added another 85GW, biomass 50-60GW and solar power up to 14GW. With the exception of biomass power generation all these renewable sources provide intermittent generation and this, together with the remote location of some renewable resources, has created a range of integration problems for system operators.

These problems fall into two principal categories, structural problems and balancing problems. The structural problems are associated with the physical changes necessary to accommodate new renewable capacity on a grid. These changes may involve the addition of new transmission lines in order to bring wind power from a remote but resource-rich region to the centres of demand. Or it might involve both additional stability measures and transmission capacity being added to an existing grid structure to cope with differing power flows arising from the injection of renewably-generated electric power.

The report "Renewable Integration and Balancing Issues" is available from Report Buyer at: http://www.reportbuyer.com/energy_utilities/alternative.

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