Effective planning and regulatory processes ensure orderly energy systems. Often, decisions are not made within mandated time frames or discrete consent processes are infrequent. Where multiple consent processes exist in sequence, a given delay may be compounded. These factors can negatively...

As infrastructures that connect the energy source with the energy use, energy networks constitute a crucial element of national and global energy systems. They also play a key role in helping with balancing supply and demand, thus ensuring that energy is not only available in the right places...

Effective planning and regulatory processes ensure orderly energy systems. Often, decisions are not made within mandated time frames or discrete consent processes are infrequent. Where multiple consent processes exist in sequence, a given delay may be compounded. These factors can negatively...

This research project quantifies the impact of renewable energy policy co-ordination in the Single Electricity Market of Ireland. Renewable energy targets are determined independently by both jurisdictions on the island. To date, renewable electricity targets have been similar in each...

Die geopolitische Bedeutung von Strom wird unterschätzt, obwohl Stromnetze Räume konstituieren. Sie etablieren neue Einflusskanäle und Machtsphären in politischen Gemeinwesen und über sie hinaus. Im Kontinentalraum Europa-Asien treffen Verbundnetze und Interkonnektoren, also...

[Zusammenfassung - Einleitung] Die auf europäischer Ebene, in Deutschland als auch in vielen Bundesländern, Städten, Gemeinden, Quartieren und kleineren Einheiten vereinbarten Ziele zu Klimaneutralität, Dekarbonisierung, Teilhabe und andere führen zu einer Vollversorgung mit erneuerbaren...

Um die Klimaziele des Übereinkommens von Paris einzuhalten, ist eine Transformation zur Dekarbonisierung der Energieversorgung notwendig. Für Europa bedeutet dies u. a. aufgrund landwirtschaftlicher Sockelemissionen eine weitestgehend CO2-freie Stromerzeugung bis spätestens 2050. Damit dieses...

Die geopolitische Bedeutung von Strom wird unterschätzt, obwohl Stromnetze Räume konstituieren. Sie etablieren neue Einflusskanäle und Macht­sphären in politischen Gemeinwesen und über sie hinaus. Im Kontinentalraum Europa-Asien treffen Verbundnetze und Interkonnektoren, also...

Using hourly offer curves from the Italian day-ahead market and the real-time re-dispatch market for the period January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018, we show how thermal generation unit owners are able to profit from differences between a simplified day-ahead market design that ignores system...

Dieser Bericht greift mit der output-orientierten Regulierung (OOR) eine aktuelle Entwicklung in der Regulierungspraxis auf, die insbesondere durch die Energiewende an Relevanz gewinnt. Ziel der OOR ist die gezielte Beanreizung vorgegebener Leistungsziele (Outputs), die im Rahmen einer ansonsten...

This paper analyses how people's attitudes towards onshore wind power and overhead transmission lines affect the costoptimal development of electricity generation mixes, under a high renewable energy policy. For that purpose, we use a power systems generation and transmission expansion planning...

Traditional electrical grid as the largest and most complex industry in the world is currently under fundamental development. According to the IEEE Std1547.4, large distribution systems can be clustered into a number of micro-grids (MGs) to facilitate the control and operation infrastructure in...

The renewable energy based smart grid present a stable power supply system with low carbon emissions. The adaptability of work in smart grid-related approaches allows microgrids to load reliably. This research proposes a self-healing method with a large smart grid in different purpose. The...

This paper analyses how people's attitudes towards onshore wind power and overhead transmission lines affect the costoptimal development of electricity generation mixes, under a high renewable energy policy. For that purpose, we use a power systems generation and transmission expansion planning...

In Europe, the ongoing renewable expansion and delays in the planned grid extension have intensified the discussion about an adequate electricity market design. Against this background, we jointly apply an agent-based electricity market model and an optimal power flow model to investigate the...

Grid integration remains one of the key challenges related to the worldwide expansion of distributed renewable energy systems. This paper presents innovative measures for increasing the hosting capacity of distribution grids with a focus on the medium-voltage grid, based on representative...

Dieser Bericht greift mit der output-orientierten Regulierung (OOR) eine aktuelle Entwicklung in der Regulierungspraxis auf, die insbesondere durch die Energiewende an Relevanz gewinnt. Ziel der OOR ist die gezielte Beanreizung vorgegebener Leistungsziele (Outputs), die im Rahmen einer ansonsten...

Die aktuellen Netzengpässe belasten die Klimabilanz Deutschlands, da sie eine Abregelung erneuerbarer Energien notwendig machen. Engpässe im Verteilnetz sind zurzeit nur begrenzt sichtbar, da sie vo n Engpässen im Übertragungsnetz überlagert werden. Im Rahmen dieser Studie wurde zunächst...

Decarbonization and electrification will require a transformed electricity grid. Our long-run model of entry and exit of generation and storage capacity captures crucial aspects of the electricity industry such as time-varying demand for electricity, intermittency of renewables, and...

"This text provides an authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America's energy picture, from trends in the production and consumption of fossil fuels and renewables to the state of the national energy grid."

Cyberattacks against industrial control systems (ICS) are on the rise. Roughly one-third of ICS were targeted by malicious activity in the first half of 2021, with hackers often tied to nation-states and organized crime. Electric utilities around the world have been undergoing a transformative...

"A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California's largest utility company that led to countless wildfires - including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise - and the human cost of infrastructure failure Pacific Gas & Electric was a legacy...

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Future electricity systems with tight constraints on carbon emissions will rely much more on wind and solar generation, with zero marginal cost, than today. We use capacity expansion modelling of Texas in 2050 to illustrate wholesale price distributions in future energy-only, carbon-constrained...

In many regions of the world, sparse data on key economic outcomes inhibits the development, targeting, and evaluation of public policy. We demonstrate how advancements in satellite imagery and machine learning can help ameliorate these data and inference challenges. In the context of an...

This paper estimates the relationship between investments in five distributed generation technologies and hourly net injections to the distribution grid for over 2,000 substations in France between 2005 and 2018. We find that investments in distributed wind and solar capacity have little or no...