To expand and upgrade the upper midwest’s electric grid, added transmission and other infrastructure improvements are needed to accommodate more renewable energy, says a new report by CapX2020, a consortium of 10 regional utilities.
While not intended to provide a vision for what the transmission grid might look like in 2050, the CapX2050 report says that solutions could include flexible alternating current transmission systems, static synchronous compensators, and grid-forming inverts, as opposed to grid-following ones.