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In their efforts to increase the share of renewable in electricity
grids to reducing emissions or increasing energy diversity,
developed and developing countries are finding that a considerable
scale-up of investments in transmission infrastructures will be
necessary to achieve their goals. Renewable energy resources such
as wind, solar, and hydro power, tend to be sited far from existing
electricity grids and consumption centers. Achieving desired supply
levels from these sources requires that networks be expanded to
reach many sites and to ensuring the different supply variation
patterns of renewable are combined with existing sources in the
grid to ensure the constantly varying demand for electricity is
always met. Expanding networks will be crucial to achieve renewable
energy objectives efficiency and effectively. Efficiency is
important to ensure renewable energy goals are achieved at the
lowest cost while considering needed investment in transmission.
Besides the cost of transmission, which is often worth,
transmission needs be planned and built in such a way that the many
sites being taped are connected in a timely fashion. The challenges
of ensuring efficiency and efficacy in developing transmission for
renewable become surmountable if the right planning and regulatory
framework for expanding transmission are put in place. This report
reviews emerging approaches being undertaken by transmission
utilities and regulators to solve to cope with these challenges of
expanding transmission for renewable energy scale-up. Proactively
planning and regulating transmission networks are emerging as the
premier approach to ensure that transmission networks are expanded
efficiently and effectively. Linking planning with clear and stable
cost-recovery regulation can also help bringing the private sector
to complement the considerable investment needs in transmission.
Based on the evolving experience and on established theory and
practice on transmission regulation, the report also proposes some
principles that could be useful to implement specific rules for the
planning, development, and pricing of transmission networks.
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