Accounting for spatiality of renewables and storage in transmission planning

Leonard Göke, Mario Kendziorski, Claudia Kemfert and Christian von Hirschhausen

Energy Economics, 2022, vol. 113, issue C

Abstract: The current governance process to plan the German energy system omits two options to substitute grid expansion: First, placing renewables closer to demand instead of where site conditions are best. Second, utilizing storage instead of additional transmission infrastructure to prevent grid congestion.

Keywords: Transmission planning; Renewables; Macro-energy systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 C61 D47 H54 Q42 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106190

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