"Take the long way down": Integration of large-scale North Sea wind using HVDC transmission

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3164-3173

  Weigt, Hannes ^a   Jeske, Till ^a   Leuthold, Florian ^a   von Hirschhausen, Christian ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congestion management; HVDC connections; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENGINEERING STANDPOINT; GERMANY; GRID EXTENSION; HIGH VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT; HVDC TRANSMISSION; LOAD CENTERS; NETWORK EXTENSIONS; NETWORK MODELS; NODAL PRICING; NORTH SEA; OFFSHORE WIND RESOURCES; PRICE SIGNALS; SOUTHERN GERMANY; UNIFORM PRICING; WIND ENERGY;

ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; INVESTMENTS;

WIND POWER;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; PRICING POLICY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WIND POWER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMANY; NORTH SEA;

EID: 77952374721     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.07.041     Document Type: Article

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