Abstract: Going to a green electricity landscape needs to cover not only the cost of the renewable production units, but also the cost for their full integration in the system. Hence, the additional costs of congestion and balancing need to be considered as well. Solving congestion issues by investing in new grid assets can be a costly and time-consuming way to integrate new renewables to the grid. Hence, the Belgian distribution network operator Eandis started a pilot project on wind turbine control where a traditional connection would not have been pos...
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Topics: 
Environmental economics
Operations research