A method to analyze the costs and emissions tradeoffs of connecting ERCOT to WECC
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Grid reliability; Electric power systems; Energy systems engineering; Interregional transmission; Capacity expansion modeling; Operational dispatch modeling; ERCOT; WECC;All these keywords.
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