Hamilton, Roger, Ron Lehr, David Olsen et. al. 2004. “Integrating Wind into Transmission Planning: The Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study.” Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Abstract Plans to expand the western grid are now underway. Bringing power from low-cost remote resources—including wind—to load centers could reduce costs for all consumers. But many paths appear…
Olsen, David. 2005. “Transmission Planning to Connect Large Increments of Wind Power: The Tehachapi Study Group.” Washington, DC: American Wind Energy Association. Abstract The 4,000 MW of high-quality wind resource in the Tehachapi Mountains of east-central California could supply more than half of the new generation necessary to meet the state’s renewable energy law. No…
Olsen, David. 2007. “Renewables-First Generation/Transmission Projects.” Washington, DC: American Wind Energy Association. Abstract: Many policy-makers and generation developers think that, especially in the West and Midwest, renewables cannot be developed on a large scale without coal as a transmission partner. This paper presents a contrary case—that large-scale renewable energy generation projects (“Mega-Projects”) appear able to…
Lehr, R. L.; Nielsen, J.; Andrews, S.; Milligan, M. (2001). Colorado Public Utility Commission’s Xcel Wind Decision. 12 pp.; NREL Report No. CP-500-30551. The paper is posted on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory web site (www.nrel.gov) at: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy01osti/30551.pdf Presented at AWEA’s WINDPOWER 2001 Conference Washington, D.C. June 4-7, 2001 In early 2001 the Colorado Public…
