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Solution III: Interconnections and regional markets as flexibility providers

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Creating regional markets for capturing the synergies and complementarities among different VRE generation profiles and load profiles is also a powerful solution.  When a diverse portfolio of energy resources is balanced over a wide geographical area, the system becomes more flexible, able to integrate higher share of VRE. Read more

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