Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity network
The increasing transmission capacity needs in a future energy system raise the question of how associated costs should be allocated to the users of a strengthened power grid. In contrast to straightforward oversimplified methods, a flow tracing based approach provides a fair and consistent nodal usa...
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| author | Bo Tranberg Anders B Thomsen Rolando A Rodriguez Gorm B Andresen Mirko Schäfer Martin Greiner |
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| description | The increasing transmission capacity needs in a future energy system raise the question of how associated costs should be allocated to the users of a strengthened power grid. In contrast to straightforward oversimplified methods, a flow tracing based approach provides a fair and consistent nodal usage and thus cost assignment of transmission investments. This technique follows the power flow through the network and assigns the link capacity usage to the respective sources or sinks using a diffusion-like process, thus taking into account the underlying network structure and injection pattern. As a showcase, we apply power flow tracing to a simplified model of the European electricity grid with a high share of renewable wind and solar power generation, based on long-term weather and load data with an hourly temporal resolution. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e846709ebbc482b87ddb43b3aaba3f82023-08-08T14:20:32ZengIOP PublishingNew Journal of Physics1367-26302015-01-01171010500210.1088/1367-2630/17/10/105002Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity networkBo Tranberg0Anders B Thomsen1Rolando A Rodriguez2Gorm B Andresen3Mirko Schäfer4Martin Greiner5Department of Physics, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkDepartment of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 118, DK-8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkDepartment of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 118, DK-8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkDepartment of Engineering, Aarhus University, Inge Lehmanns Gade 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkFrankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt, GermanyDepartment of Engineering, Aarhus University, Inge Lehmanns Gade 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkThe increasing transmission capacity needs in a future energy system raise the question of how associated costs should be allocated to the users of a strengthened power grid. In contrast to straightforward oversimplified methods, a flow tracing based approach provides a fair and consistent nodal usage and thus cost assignment of transmission investments. This technique follows the power flow through the network and assigns the link capacity usage to the respective sources or sinks using a diffusion-like process, thus taking into account the underlying network structure and injection pattern. As a showcase, we apply power flow tracing to a simplified model of the European electricity grid with a high share of renewable wind and solar power generation, based on long-term weather and load data with an hourly temporal resolution.https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/105002energy system designlarge-scale integration of renewable power generationflow tracingcomplex renewable electricity networks87.70.+p89.65.Gh |
| spellingShingle | Bo Tranberg Anders B Thomsen Rolando A Rodriguez Gorm B Andresen Mirko Schäfer Martin Greiner Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity network New Journal of Physics energy system design large-scale integration of renewable power generation flow tracing complex renewable electricity networks 87.70.+p 89.65.Gh |
| title | Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity network |
| title_full | Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity network |
| title_fullStr | Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity network |
| title_short | Power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable European electricity network |
| title_sort | power flow tracing in a simplified highly renewable european electricity network |
| topic | energy system design large-scale integration of renewable power generation flow tracing complex renewable electricity networks 87.70.+p 89.65.Gh |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/105002 |
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