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A methodology to quantify the impact of a renewed T&D infrastructure on EU 2020 goals
This paper addresses the issue of the evaluation of
how modern and restructured Transmission and Distribution
(T&D) infrastructures help accomplish the so-called EU 2020
targets, in terms of efficiency increase, CO2 reduction and a
wider employ of renewable energy resources. A methodology is
proposed in order to quantify the possible environmental benefits
as well as the power quality improvement provided by the
application of modern T&D products and systems on the power
grids. Such methodology is based both on the identification of
suitable \u201cperformance (technical) indices\u201d to be used to rank the
benefits brought by the different grid upgrading measures and
on the definition of suitable \u201ctest networks\u201d, which can be
employed as benchmarks to perform the numerical evaluation of
the introduced indices. Then, a procedure is presented in order to
determine and compare the quantitative effect of each single
corrective action on T&D power grids. Finally, some
considerations on possible side effects and advices on strategies
for the implementation of the corrective measures are discussed
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