Are Integration Costs and Tariffs Based on Cost-Causation? [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 333.791 Economics of land and energy
• Thông tin xuất bản: Golden, Colo. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.) ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2011
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 518 KB : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 259435
• Chủ đề: 1. 14 solar energy; 2. 17 wind energy; 3. 24 power transmission and distribution; 4. Power systems; 5. Tariffs

Tóm tắt

Integration cost analysis has progressed significantly over the past ten years. There is also a much better understanding of the cost drivers among the system stakeholders. This paper examines how wind and solar integration studies have evolved, what analysis techniques work, what common mistakes are still made, and what and why calculating integration costs is such a difficult problem thatshould be undertaken carefully, if at all. The many complex interactions among components of the power system and assumptions regarding the base case have important influences on integration cost estimates, and raise questions about whether integration cost components can be correctly untangled. We discuss many of these concerns and implications, shedding some light on the difficulties involvedin measuring and interpreting integration cost estimates.