Abstract
This chapter discusses the challenges of integrating intermittent renewable resources on island systems. The chapter summarizes the paths and challenges encountered by the leading islands that have been planning and implementing ways to integrate renewables at high penetration levels in excess of 30%, a level higher than any interconnected system in the world. These challenges range from long-term planning to short-term operations. They require island system operators to meld all existing technologies and further explore innovative technology options. Political backup is needed as well. The challenges these island systems face when addressing renewable integration covers a variety of issues considered as separate topics for interconnected grids, ranging from smart grid, distributed generation, climate policy, system resilience, to storage technologies. For the first time in history, island systems are being the test bed of innovative technologies that can potentially lead the future of large interconnected systems.
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