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      <text>"A two-area (A-B) system with "</text>
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      <text>"  loads and "</text>
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      <text>" fleets. The differences between A and B are the following : "</text>
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      <text>Area A  has a wind power fleet (15GW installed)</text>
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      <text>Area B  has a Pumped storage power plant (3GW both ways) operated on a daily cycle</text>
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      <text>There is a 4GW  interconnection capacity between A and B</text>
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      <text>"This  state of the system can be construed as the result of a mixed generation/transmission expansion study, in which the available "</text>
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      <text>development options were:</text>
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      <text>build (or not) a 15 GW wind power fleet in A</text>
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      <text>build (or not) a 3 GW PSP plant in B  (pumping to generating efficiency : 75%)</text>
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      <text>"build (or not) an interconnector between A and B,the capacity of which remaining to be determined  "</text>
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      <text>"If none of the projects were commissioned, the overall system's operating cost would be increased by about 6.5 G euros. "</text>
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      <text>"The 4GW interconnector brings about 95% of the economic benefits that could be reached with a "</text>
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      <text>" (infinite capacity) interconnector."</text>
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      <text>## Edited for testing R packages##</text>
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      <text>Addition of hydro generation in A</text>
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      <text>300 MW, 1 GWh/year</text>
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