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ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Volume 80, Issue 6, Pages 633-641Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2009.10.014
Keywords
Sustainable electricity system; Optimal power flow; Reduced transmission losses; Fuel mix diversity
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The design of a sustainable electricity generation and transmission system is based on the established science of anthropogemc climate change and the realization that depending on imported fossil-fuels is becoming a measure of energy insecurity of supply. A model is proposed which integrates generation fuel mix composition, assignment of plants and optimized power flow, using Portugal as a case study The result of this co-optimized approach is an overall set of generator types/fuels which increases the diversity of Portuguese electricity supply, lowers its dependency on imported fuels by 21 30% and moves the country towards meeting its regional and international obligations of 31% energy from renewables by 2020 and a 27% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2012, respectively. The quantity and composition of power generation at each bus is specified, with particular focus on quantifying the amount of distributed generation Based on other works, the resultant, overall distributed capacity penetration of 11.88% of total installed generation is expected to yield positive network benefits Thus, the model demonstrates that national energy policy and technical deployment can be linked through sustainability and, moreover, that the respective goals may be mutually achieved via holistic, integrated design (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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