An evolution model with high proportion of renewable energy

Compared with other conventional energy sources, renewable energy, which results in less pollution and has numerous resources, is a significant factor in addressing the current issues of the serious environmental pollution and the resource depletion. Large-scale renewable energy connected to the grid could lead to a the change of the morphological structure and the operation modes of energy transmission. While current power grid evolution models did not consider the characteristics of renewable energy in the evolution strategy. The expansion mechanism of the future transmission network with a high proportion of renewable energy is studied in this paper. The operation cost including renewable energy curtailment are optimized using the production simulations, where the stochastic and intermittent of wind and solar energy are modeled. And the dual variable information is adopted to drive the grid upgrading. The expansion strategies for power grid of Zhejiang province in China are analyzed to balance the construction cost and curtailment cost of renewable energy.