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Wide-area Planning of Electric Infrastructure: Assessing Investment Options For Low-carbon Futures

Abstract

Electric infrastructure worldwide has evolved significantly over the last decade, as nations increase the renewable share of their generation portfolio and build transmission to move energy from the resources to the load centers. Since 2007, the United States has increased its percentage of electric energy generated from wind and solar from lower than 1% to 7.5%, Europe from approximately 3% to over 13%, and China from 1% to 5%.

Article / Publication Data
Active/Online
YES
Volume
15
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Fiscal Year
Peer Reviewed
YES
Publication Name
Power and Energy Magazine
Published On
December 01, 2017
Publisher Name
IEEEXplore
Print Volume
15
Print Number
6
Page Range
83-93
Issue
6
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