Abstract
The achievement of the so-called 2020 targets requested by the European Union (EU) has determined a significant growth of proposals of solutions and of technical projects aiming at reducing the CO2 emissions and increasing the energy efficiency, as well as the penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the electric network. As many of them ask for funding from the EU itself, there is the necessity to define a methodology to rank them and decide which projects should be sponsored to obtain the maximum effect on the EU 2020 targets. The present paper aims at (i) defining a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to compare different proposals, (ii) proposing an analytical methodology to evaluate the defined KPIs and (iii) evaluating the maximum impact that the considered action is capable of producing. The proposed methodology is applied to a set of possible interventions performed on a benchmark transmission network test case, in order to show that the defined indicators can be either calculated or measured and that they are useful to rank different “smarting actions”.
Highlights
The European Union (EU) climate and energy policy has established targets for the year 2020 on efficiency, CO2 reduction and the increase of renewable energy deployment [1,2,3,4]
Following the guidelines provided by the European Union, the aim of the present article is that of proposing a methodology to define and evaluate environmentally-oriented Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will be directly related to the EU 2020 targets [10]
The aim of the present article is, that of providing the definition of suitable KPIs related to the EU 2020 targets and a flexible methodology to calculate the proposed KPIs in accordance with different improving actions to be performed on the Transmission and Distribution (T&D) infrastructure
Summary
The European Union (EU) climate and energy policy has established targets for the year 2020 on efficiency, CO2 reduction and the increase of renewable energy deployment [1,2,3,4]. Transmission and Distribution (T&D) infrastructure efficiency can and has to be increased in order to achieve the best system performance allowed by state-of-the-art technology. T&D grids’ efficiency would bring benefits at the production side, since it could allow operating generation plants at their best from an environmental point of view. In this context, attention to innovation and the improvement of all of the processes in energy conversion and transportation, as long as the energy usage is at the utility scale, has become a primary issue attracting the interest of those who want to invest in the improvement and modernization of the European electricity infrastructure. A general simulation tool, called PRIMES, has been proposed in the recent past to assess the impact of EU policies on the power sector [5]
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