Greening the Grid: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India's Electric Grid, Regional Study: Gujarat

Technical Report · Wed Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1452697· OSTI ID:1452697

Cochran, Jaquelin M. ^[1]; Palchak, Joseph D. ^[1]; Ehlen, Annaliese K. ^[1]; McBennett, Brendan ^[1]; Milligan, Michael ^[1]; Chernyakhovskiy, Ilya ^[1]; Deshmukh, Ranjit ^[2]; Abhyankar, Nikit ^[2]; Narasimhan, S. R. ^[3]; Joshi, Mohit ^[3]; Sreedharan, Priya ^[4]; Soonee, Sushil Kumar ^[3]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
3. Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. (POSOCO), New Delhi (India)
4. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, D.C. (United States)

This chapter on Andhra Pradesh is one of six state chapters included in Appendix C of 'Greening the Grid: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India's Electric Grid, Vol. II - Regional Study' (the Regional Study). The objective of the state chapters is to provide modeling assumptions, results, and next steps to use and improve the model specific to each state. The model has inherent uncertainties, particularly in how the intrastate transmission network and RE generation projects will develop (e.g., locations, capacities). The model also does not include information on contracts or must-run status of particular plants for reliability purposes. By providing details on the higher spatial resolution model of 'Greening the Grid: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India's Electric Grid, Vol. II - Regional Study' (the Regional Study), which better represents the impact of congestion on least-cost scheduling and dispatch, provides a deeper understanding of the relationship among renewable energy (RE) location, transmission, and system flexibility with regard to RE integration, compared to 'Greening the Grid: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India's Electric Grid, Vol. I - National Study.'

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: United States Agency for International Development (USAID); USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1452697
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-6A20-70949
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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