Transmission System Planning for Integration of Renewable Electricity Generation Units

This paper summarizes the operational challenges imposed by integration of renewable electricity generation units in transmission level where the most common renewable generation units are solar and wind farms at the scale of 100s to 1000s MW. Such units, because of their stochastic nature, introduce new complexity and uncertainty to the grid. Throughout this paper, some results from the recent planning study of integration of 1,000 MW offshore wind farm into the U.S. Eastern Interconnection transmission system are shown.

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