A Feasibility Study on HTS Cable for the Grid Integration of Renewable Energy

Nowadays there are a lot of demands for the renewable energy generation because fossil fuel is being exhausted. The size of renewable plant has a tendency to be increased for economic reasons. So the high voltage level facilities are necessary for interconnection between power grid and renewable plant. The interconnection facilities should have a transmission capacity enough to transfer the peak power generated by renewable plant. However, the output of renewable has an intermittent characteristic and its variation range is not small. Therefore an average utilization ratio of interconnection line between is low because of the power fluctuation from renewable plant. The High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) cable is able to transmit a large amount of electricity without additional power facility. In this paper, an advantage of using HTS cable as an interconnection line between power grid and renewable plant are analyzed.