Connecting the circuits: power transmission and integration challenges in a changing energy landscape
The world’s need for power transmission and distribution infrastructure continues to change and evolve. Climate change-related events pose significant challenges to grid resilience and can lead to widespread power outages. Integrating renewable energy sources from remote locations often requires significant investment, which can face regulatory and environmental hurdles; and regulatory frameworks often need to evolve to accommodate new technologies and business models.
Many regions are investing in grid reliability and resilience projects to upgrade aging infrastructure, enhance reliability, and accommodate the integration of renewable energy resources like solar and wind, and a high penetration of inverter based resources. High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Transmission technology is increasingly being used for transmission due to its efficiency, flexibility, and ability to connect remote renewable energy sources to urban centers. The integration of energy storage systems, such as lithium-ion batteries, to support the modern power system is growing too, both of which will help balance supply and demand, improve grid stability, and support renewable energy integration.
Obtaining and maintaining social license for infrastructure projects is becoming more difficult, and power transmission projects are uniquely challenged. New and innovative approaches are needed to complete the required environmental and socio-economic assessments; and continuous, open communication are crucial to ensure public acceptance. Inevitably, more power delivery infrastructure will need to be built out of sight, and possibly underground, requiring a partner who can rise to these challenges.
In an environment of intense regulatory and political scrutiny, the power delivery project developers require world-class engineering, as well as highly professional project management and risk management for their power delivery projects.
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