Necessity and Targets of Future Electric Power System Simulation and Integration Studies for Realizing Higher Variable Renewable Energy Deployment and Lower CO2-Emission Society

Abstract

For long-term sustainable de-carbonization, not only the improvement of conventional technologies such as thermal power generators but also customer side technologies such as renewable energies, storage batteries, demand response, etc. will play an important role. In order to verify the value of increased deployments of renewable energy resources and promote the dissemination, integrated impact analysis of the resources on electric power systems, as it is called Integration Studies, are becoming important. The authors investigated domestic-and foreign-examples of Integration Studies, and show the result of an Integration Study for Japanese power systems. This paper discusses the way to realize higher variable renewable energy deployment and lower carbonization society in the near future.