Realising Isle of Wight Aspirations for Renewable Energy Power Generation and Local Consumption

怀特岛提供了巨大的可再生能源发电潜力，包括风能、太阳能、潮汐能等。电力网络目前无法应付这种发电所需的扩张，一段时间以来一直处于紧张状态。目前的发电水平，特别是太阳能光伏发电，已经导致该岛的发电量在短期内超过其需求，并通过三个国家132kV互连器成为电力出口国到大陆。然而，这样的互连现在是“满”的，这意味着，在最大供应和最小需求的时期，他们无法将所有多余的发电量输送到大陆。这在本质上导致了削减新一代项目，因为需要非常高的加固成本，使这些项目不经济。怀特岛议会希望促进低碳发电，并将其目前的90兆瓦水平提高到约200兆瓦。实现这一目标的“基础设施”解决方案是安装一个额外的互连器，但由于成本、时间和环境限制，这一方案不太可能实现。该项目将通过寻找当地消费需求（包括家庭和工业）、储存、制氢和储存的机会，以及如何调整电网以允许这种扩张，以及与高低碳相关的经济、社会和环境评估，来解决实现这一目标的解决方案。该研究还将解决(i)当前的电网容量以及如何使其更灵活，（ii）连接成本，（iii）本地消费和出口之间的平衡以及（iv）智能电网解决方案。

The Isle of Wight (IoW) offers a large potential for renewable energy power generation including wind, solar, tidal etc. The electricity network currently cannot cope with the needed expansion in such power generation and has been under a strain for some time. The current level of generation especially from solar PV, has already resulted in short periods when the Island's generation exceeds its demand and it becomes an exporter of power via the three national 132kV interconnectors to the mainland. However, such interconnectors are now 'full' meaning that, at periods of maximum supply and minimum demand, they are unable to carry all the surplus generation to the mainland. This in essence resulted in curtailing new generation projects due to the very high reinforcement costs needed rendering such projects uneconomic. The Isle of Wight Council wishes to promote low carbon generation and increase its current level of 90MW up to approximately 200MW. The 'infrastructure' solution to allow this would be to install an additional interconnector, but this is unlikely to happen due to cost, timescale and environmental constraints. This project will address solutions to achieve such a target by looking at opportunities for local consumption demands (including domestic and industrial), storage, hydrogen production and storage, how the grid can be adapted to allow this expansion as well as economic, social and environmental assessment related to a high low carbon IoW. The research will also address (i) current grid capacity and how this can be made more flexible, (ii) the connections costs (iii) the balance between local consumption and export and (iv) smart grid solutions.