The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs

The decarbonization of the energy sector puts additional pressure on the transmission network. The main cause for this is that renewable sources are often more abundant in geographical areas far away from the main demand centers, so new transmission lines are required to connect the new renewable en...

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Autores: Lumbreras, S., Gómez, J.D., Alvarez, E.F., Huclin, S.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:power system expansion planning
power system operation
transmission expansion planning
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spelling The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System NeedsLumbreras, S.Gómez, J.D.Alvarez, E.F.Huclin, S.power system expansion planningpower system operationtransmission expansion planningThe decarbonization of the energy sector puts additional pressure on the transmission network. The main cause for this is that renewable sources are often more abundant in geographical areas far away from the main demand centers, so new transmission lines are required to connect the new renewable energy capacity. In addition, by connecting different geographical zones, the transmission network could smooth the intermittency and the variability of renewable energy production. Thus, the changing energy landscape leads to a need to reinforce the transmission network through the Network Transmission Expansion Planning. Ideally, all the idiosyncrasies of the electricity system are considered in the operation and expansion planning process. However, several critical dimensions of the planning process are routinely ignored since they may introduce parameters that are difficult to quantify and complexity that state-of-the-art planning methods cannot handle. This paper identifies the most relevant elements related to the human factor, which have been grouped around the main topics: the human behind the technical, the human at the institutional level, and the human at the individual level. This paper also provides an additional formulation that can be used to upgrade existing models to include the human element and discusses the implications of these upgrades. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Funding: This research has been carried out thanks to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO through BC3 María de Maeztu excellence accreditation MDM-2017-0714 Maria de Maeztu Grant, and through the funding of openENTRANCE project (Open ENergy TRansition ANalyses for a low-carbon Economy) that belongs to LC-SC3-CC-2-2018—Modelling in support to the transition to a Low-Carbon Energy System in Europe.Sustainability (Switzerland)202320232022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/61719reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/MDM-2017-0714/https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14116746info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/© 2022 by the authors.Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Españaoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/617192026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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title The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
spellingShingle The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
Lumbreras, S.
power system expansion planning
power system operation
transmission expansion planning
title_short The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
title_full The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
title_fullStr The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
title_full_unstemmed The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
title_sort The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
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Gómez, J.D.
Alvarez, E.F.
Huclin, S.
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Gómez, J.D.
Alvarez, E.F.
Huclin, S.
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Alvarez, E.F.
Huclin, S.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv power system expansion planning
power system operation
transmission expansion planning
topic power system expansion planning
power system operation
transmission expansion planning
description The decarbonization of the energy sector puts additional pressure on the transmission network. The main cause for this is that renewable sources are often more abundant in geographical areas far away from the main demand centers, so new transmission lines are required to connect the new renewable energy capacity. In addition, by connecting different geographical zones, the transmission network could smooth the intermittency and the variability of renewable energy production. Thus, the changing energy landscape leads to a need to reinforce the transmission network through the Network Transmission Expansion Planning. Ideally, all the idiosyncrasies of the electricity system are considered in the operation and expansion planning process. However, several critical dimensions of the planning process are routinely ignored since they may introduce parameters that are difficult to quantify and complexity that state-of-the-art planning methods cannot handle. This paper identifies the most relevant elements related to the human factor, which have been grouped around the main topics: the human behind the technical, the human at the institutional level, and the human at the individual level. This paper also provides an additional formulation that can be used to upgrade existing models to include the human element and discusses the implications of these upgrades. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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