CALAJOULE: An Italian Research to Lessen Joule Power Losses in Overhead Lines by Means of Innovative Conductors

Roberto Benato, Roberto Caldon, Antonio Chiarelli, Massimiliano Coppo, Claudio Garescì, Sebastian Dambone Sessa, Debora Mimo, Michele Modesti, Luca Mora and Francesca Piovesan
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Roberto Benato: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Roberto Caldon: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Antonio Chiarelli: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Massimiliano Coppo: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Claudio Garescì: Nuova Elettromeccanica Sud (NES) s.p.a. Campo Calabro, 89052 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Sebastian Dambone Sessa: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Debora Mimo: De Angeli Prodotti S.r.l. Bagnoli di Sopra, 35023 Padova, Italy
Michele Modesti: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Luca Mora: De Angeli Prodotti S.r.l. Bagnoli di Sopra, 35023 Padova, Italy
Francesca Piovesan: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 16, 1-21

Abstract: The ongoing evolution of the power system to implement climate action policies is resulting in a continuous increase in the penetration of renewables and the necessity of strengthening the transmission grid to optimize the usage of those sources and contain operation costs. Reinforcing the transmission lines or building new ones is a process that is made difficult due to authorization issues related with environmental and public acceptance concerns. Developing innovative conductors for overhead lines with enhanced performances with respect to the traditional ones would bring benefits in terms of energy efficiency increases in transmission and distribution grids without requiring the substitution of the existing towers. The project CALAJOULE (the genesis of the acronym comes from the union of the Italian verb “calare”-to decrease-to the third person singular, namely “cala” i.e., decreases, and of Joule, obvious reference to the active losses), cofinanced by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development in the framework of the “Ricerca di Sistema” program, aims at proposing innovative solutions for overhead line conductors for the containment of Joule power losses. In this paper, starting from the state-of-the-art of the currently adopted conductors, the main innovative solutions resulting from the project are presented and compared with the traditional ones to evaluate the achievable reduction in Joule losses.

Keywords: innovative conductors; overhead lines; power losses reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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