New JRC study on preventing congestion with renewable deployment

Because of grid bottlenecks, a substantial amount of renewable electricity is at risk of being wasted. 

A new JRC study, presented at the 39th European Electricity Regulatory Forum, investigates three grid expansion scenarios for the target years 2030 and 2040, focusing on how countries reinforce their national grids. 

Even in the extreme grid expansion scenario, where the total circuit length in Europe increases by more than a third, the redispatch volume would still surge nearly six-fold.