Funding entity Fraunhofer
We aim to make a quantitative estimate of the impact of the set of RES generation deployment strategies on transmission network development and operation costs at European level. The geographical scope of the analysis is the EU-28 system, while the time scope is the year 2030. Thus, the expansion of the European transmission system and the system operation in the year 2030 shall be jointly optimized. We will focus on identifying optimal main transmission network corridors to reinforce and the extent of reinforcements needed in them, though we will also compute the performance of the resulting network architectures with respect to main operation variables affected by the existence of the grid, like investment cost of grid additions, network losses incurred, CO2 emissions produced, and overall production by technology and fuel production costs.
RES-Cost
