Transmission Expansion for Renewable Energy Scale-Up: Emerging Lessons and Recommendations

By Marcelino Madrigal and Steven Stoft

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082139598X
• ISBN13: 9780821395981
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"