Powering Europe - European Wind Energy Association
Powering Europe - European Wind Energy Association
Powering Europe - European Wind Energy Association
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With increased penetration levels of distributed generation,<br />
including large-scale deployment of wind power<br />
both at transmission and distribution level, the distribution<br />
networks can no longer be considered a “passive<br />
appendage” to the transmission network. For<br />
the future very high shares of renewable energy, the<br />
entire transmission and distribution system will have<br />
to be designed and operated as an integrated unit. It<br />
will be necessary to deploy innovative and effective<br />
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measures such as ‘smart grids’, also termed ‘active<br />
networks’, ‘intelligent grids’ or ‘intelligent networks’,<br />
in order to maintain supply and demand in balance<br />
in networks with a large amount of renewables. Managing<br />
such a configuration involves several different<br />
parties, and is a complex task. An important research<br />
task for the future is the investigation of the use of<br />
controlled, dynamic loads to contribute to network<br />
services such as frequency response.<br />
<strong>Powering</strong> <strong>Europe</strong>: wind energy and the electricity grid<br />
Photo: EDF
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