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Power Transmission Technologies and Solutions: The Latest Advances at RTE, the French Transmission System Operator

Power Transmission Technologies and Solutions: The Latest Advances at RTE, the French Transmission System Operator

RTE, the French transmission system operator, describes a variety of transmission technologies and solutions they have implemented on their system, including Modular FACTS. This paper describes RTE’s experience installing these ‘SmartModules’ on their 63 kV system to resolve a post-contingency overload. RTE found that power flow control management leads to optimized grid usage in real time and also provides a flexible solution to local uncertainty. Compared to legacy forms of power flow control, Modular FACTS solutions provide enhanced flexibility and a more economic choice.

Authors

Bruno Meyer, Jean-Yves Astic, Pierre Meyer,
François-Xavier Sardou, Christian Poumarede,
Nicolas Couturier, Mathieu Fontaine, Christian Lemaitre,
Jean Maeght, and Clémentine Straub (RTE)

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Increase transfer capacity, improve energy security, renewable integration, Modular FACTS

Improving Transmission Operation with Advanced Technologies: A Review of Deployment Experience and Analysis of Incentives

Improving Transmission Operation with Advanced Technologies: A Review of Deployment Experience and Analysis of Incentives                        

The Brattle Group and Grid Strategies LLC jointly produced a report discussing the benefits of grid enhancing technologies to the transmission system. These technologies can provide economic benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars and cost much less than conventional transmission upgrades. However, the existing regulatory structure in the US lacks sufficient incentive for utilities to capture the value these technologies can provide to the overall system. Hence, a modified regulatory framework that ensures the greatest societal benefit is worth considering.

Publishing Entities

The Brattle Group and Grid Strategies LLC

Authors

    • T. Bruce Tsuchida (The Brattle Group)
    • Rob Gramlich (Grid Strategies LLC)
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Technology overview, increase transfer capacity, cost-benefit analysis, renewable integration, Modular FACTS

Increasing Bulk Power Transfer of Renewable Generation with Modular FACTS to Lower Wholesale Costs to Consumers

Increasing Bulk Power Transfer of Renewable Generation with Modular FACTS to Lower Wholesale Costs to Consumers

This paper describes how three Australian network owners, TransGrid, AusNet and ElectraNet, plan to leverage modular FACTS to facilitate the bulk transfer of renewable energy across regional boundaries. Using modular FACTS to improve the utilization of existing networks means reduced of wind generation curtailment, improved market access for hydro generation, and a lower probability of unserved energy following retirement of fossil fuel generators.

Publishing Entity

CIGRE

Authors

    • J. Bridge (AusNet)
    • A. Kingsmill (TransGrid)
    • H. Klingenberg (ElectraNet)
    • P. Harrington
    • B. Kelly

Presented at

CIGRE Johannessburg, 2019
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Improve energy security, optimize economic dispatch and reduce renewable curtailment, increase transfer capacity, renewable integration, cost-benefit analysis, increase transfer capacity, Modular FACTS

Improving Transmission Operation with Advanced Technologies: A Review of Deployment Experience and Analysis of Incentives

Improving Transmission Operation with Advanced Technologies: A Review of Deployment Experience and Analysis of Incentives

The Brattle Group and Grid Strategies LLC jointly produced a report discussing the benefits of grid enhancing technologies to the transmission system. These technologies can provide economic benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars and cost much less than conventional transmission upgrades. However, the existing regulatory structure in the US lacks sufficient incentive for utilities to capture the value these technologies can provide to the overall system. Hence, a modified regulatory framework that ensures the greatest societal benefit is worth considering.

Authors

T. Bruce Tsuchida (The Brattle Group), Rob Gramlich (Grid Strategies LLC)

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Increase transfer capacity, improve energy security, renewable integration, Modular FACTS

Using Modular Flow Control to Improve Transfer Capability, Reduce Constraints on Renewable Generation and Alleviate Congestion

Using Modular Flow Control to Improve Transfer Capability, Reduce Constraints on Renewable Generation and Alleviate Congestion

ElectraNet, the Transmission Operator in South Australia, describes an economic application of modular power flow control devices to alleviate congestion on transmission lines, improving the power transfer capability of transmission corridors by increasing their average utilization. The analysis considers the capital cost of equipment against fuel cost-savings achieved by displacing gas-fired generation with renewable generation sources.

Publishing Entity

CIGRE

Authors

    • B. Parker (ElectraNet)
    • B. Harrison (ElectraNet)
    • M. Longoria
    • Y. Meyer
    • P. Harrington

Presented at

CIGRE Paris C1 – 204, 2018
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Renewable integration, techno-economic studies, power flow studies, power system planning, cost-benefit analysis, optimize economic dispatch and reduce renewable curtailment, increase transfer capacity, Modular FACTS