Exploring the Grid Value of Offshore Wind Energy in Oregon [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.922 Economics of land and energy
• Thông tin xuất bản: Richland, Wash. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.) ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: Article No. 4435 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 257088
• Chủ đề: 1. 17 wind energy; 2. Complementarity; 3. Marine renewable energy; 4. Offshore wind energy; 5. Transmission of ocean energy

Tóm tắt

 The significant offshore wind energy potential of Oregon faces several challenges, including a power grid which was not developed for the purpose of transmitting energy from the ocean. The grid impacts of the energy resource are considered through the lenses of (i) resource complementarity with Variable Renewable Energy resources
  (ii) correlations with load profiles from the four balancing authorities with territory in Oregon
  and (iii) spatial value to regional and coastal grids as represented through a production cost model of the Western Interconnection. The capacity implications of the interactions between offshore wind and the historical east-to-west power flows of the region are discussed. The existing system is shown to accommodate more than two gigawatts of offshore wind interconnections with minimal curtailment. Through three gigawatts of interconnection, transmission flows indicate a reduction of coastal and statewide energy imports as well as minimal statewide energy exports.