Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns

Countries are making important efforts decarbonising their electricity generation mix. In this context, improving the operational efficiency enables better use to be made by renewables and the grids. However, the location of new capacity might be relevant from the social welfare point of view when p...

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Autores: Costa, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1951-, Davi-Arderius, Daniel, Trujillo-Baute, Elisa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/180041
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/180041
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Política energètica
Eficiència industrial
Energies renovables
Energy policy
Industrial efficiency
Renewable energy sources
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spelling Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns Costa, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1951- Davi-Arderius, Daniel Trujillo-Baute, Elisa Política energètica Eficiència industrial Energies renovables Energy policy Industrial efficiency Renewable energy sources Countries are making important efforts decarbonising their electricity generation mix. In this context, improving the operational efficiency enables better use to be made by renewables and the grids. However, the location of new capacity might be relevant from the social welfare point of view when private decisions might affect the power system efficiency. In this paper, we analyze the Spanish transmission grid with the aim to explore in the power system efficiencies with a high share of renewables in the generation mix. We explore in the location of the generation technologies to see how efficient they are located with regard to the consumption. We find wind is one of the least efficiently located, which has implied relevant grid investments paid by consumers. Moreover, a high concentration of renewables increases grid-congestions, which might constrain locations for future capacity. Our results highlight there is a trade-off between incomes from RES and grid costs paid by consumers. Therefore, we suggest RES policies should include some locational incentives. We analyze pros and cons from some choices and conclude countries should provide further grid information to incumbents and also include locational incentives in future RES auctions. Indeed, results from this paper represent a first stage in the design of these locational incentives. Elsevier B.V. https://hdl.handle.net/2445/180041
title Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns
spellingShingle Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns
Costa, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1951-
Política energètica
Eficiència industrial
Energies renovables
Energy policy
Industrial efficiency
Renewable energy sources
title_short Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns
title_full Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns
title_fullStr Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns
title_full_unstemmed Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns
title_sort Analysing electricity flows and congestions: looking at locational patterns
author Costa, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1951-
author_facet Costa, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1951-
Davi-Arderius, Daniel
Trujillo-Baute, Elisa
author_role author
author2 Davi-Arderius, Daniel
Trujillo-Baute, Elisa
author2_role author
author
topic Política energètica
Eficiència industrial
Energies renovables
Energy policy
Industrial efficiency
Renewable energy sources
topic_facet Política energètica
Eficiència industrial
Energies renovables
Energy policy
Industrial efficiency
Renewable energy sources
description Countries are making important efforts decarbonising their electricity generation mix. In this context, improving the operational efficiency enables better use to be made by renewables and the grids. However, the location of new capacity might be relevant from the social welfare point of view when private decisions might affect the power system efficiency. In this paper, we analyze the Spanish transmission grid with the aim to explore in the power system efficiencies with a high share of renewables in the generation mix. We explore in the location of the generation technologies to see how efficient they are located with regard to the consumption. We find wind is one of the least efficiently located, which has implied relevant grid investments paid by consumers. Moreover, a high concentration of renewables increases grid-congestions, which might constrain locations for future capacity. Our results highlight there is a trade-off between incomes from RES and grid costs paid by consumers. Therefore, we suggest RES policies should include some locational incentives. We analyze pros and cons from some choices and conclude countries should provide further grid information to incumbents and also include locational incentives in future RES auctions. Indeed, results from this paper represent a first stage in the design of these locational incentives.
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