Transmission expansion planning (TEP) aims to identify the new reinforce-ments to be installed in the electric power system, necessary to ensure an adequate interconnection between demand and generation of the system, both foreseen for the planning horizon. A good expansion plan should ensure a balance between investment and operating costs, while maintaining a satisfactory level of continui-ty in the energy supply. However, identifying good expansion solutions for TEP has become an increasingly difficult task. This is mainly due to the characteristics and dimensions of the current systems, including the increase in the dependence of renewable sources, and the nonlinearity and combinatorial nature of the optimi-zation problem. In this dissertation, a new methodology is proposed to solve the TEP prob-lem with high penetration of renewable energy, in particular wind power. The methodology is based on the application of a new optimization tool for static TEP solution, which is classified as a constructive metaheuristic, where feasible solu-tions of good quality are simultaneously constructed from the initial topology of the network, through incremental additions of reinforcements more attractive to the grid. Other heuristics are also used. Emphasis is given to the modeling of wind power scenarios, which represent the renewable energy of the network to be planned, which should allow a flexible operation and adapted to the intermittency of these sources. The security criterion N-1 and the linear DC network model are used, with the consideration of ohmic losses. A variant of the IEEE RTS sys-tem, with insertion of wind sources, is used to test the proposed methodology.