• DocumentCode
    1163516
  • Title

    Estimates of Comparative Costs for Uprating Transmission Capacity

  • Author

    Baldick, Ross ; O´Neill, Richard P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    961
  • Lastpage
    969
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we estimate the costs of increasing transmission system capability through technologies for uprating transmission capacity without expanding the transmission footprint. We compare costs for uprating to the costs of new capacity.
  • Keywords
    flexible AC transmission systems; comparative cost estimation; transmission system capability; uprating transmission capacity; Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS); transmission assets;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-8977
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPWRD.2008.2002990
  • Filename
    4785119