Assessment of implementing Jordan's renewable energy plan on the electricity grid

In the present work,the technical and economic impacts of integrating large scale renewable energy projects of wind and pv systems to the transmission grid in jordan up to the year 2025 has been investigated. the current grid transmission system of jordan's electricity network has been modeled and used. large renewable energy systems of pv and wind proposed by the master energy plan in jordan have been introduced to the grid. the digital simulation and electrical network calculation (digsilent) program (i.e.,power analysis program) and the wien automatic system planning model (wasp) software were used to evaluate both the technical and economic impacts. it is found that until 2018 jordan's transmission grid will face minor overloads,while,most of transmission lines will be overloaded by 2020. the technical and economic aspects of the existence of a special transmission line (green corridor) from the generation site in the south to the demand locations in the center is investigated and documented. it is found that this solution is vital to the transmission grid and feasible. moreover,it revealed that because of the dependence of renewable energy systems the lcoe by 2025 will vary only 25 % (between 100 to 125 usd/mwh) when the price of ng increases 50% (from 8 to 12 $/mmbtu) in spite of the additional cost of the green corridor of 145 m$ for grid reinforcement. also,it is expected that with the target renewable energy projects and new conventional power plants the lcoe in 2025 will be 43 % less than that in 2014. © 2017 jordan journal of mechanical and industrial engineering.