Key Performance Indicators in Assessing New Technology for Electricity Transmission and Distribution Networks

Abstract The chapter presents a scientific analysis of how much modern products and systems from the electricity industry contribute to the European Union's efforts to mitigate climate change. A methodology is proposed to quantify the possible environmental benefits in terms of efficiency increase, CO 2 reduction, and a wider use of renewable energy resources as well as of power quality improvement provided by a renewal of the European T&D infrastructures. Such methodology is based both on the identification of suitable technical KPIs (key performance indicators) to be used to rank the benefits brought by the different grid upgrading measures and on the definition of suitable “test networks,” which can be employed as benchmarks for performing the numerical evaluation of the introduced KPIs.

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