A presentation from the Grid Integration Webinar Series
Sponsored by The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
January 10, 2017
Jennie Jorgenson, along with Trieu Mai and Greg Brinkman, presented findings from their report titled, Reducing Wind Curtailment Through Transmission Expansion in a Wind Vision Future. The study used detailed nodal simulations of the Western Interconnection system with greater than 35% wind energy, based on scenarios from the DOE Wind Vision study to assess the operability of such a system. The simulations were also used to explore the value of transmission in reducing renewable curtailment under these high wind scenarios.