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Transmission Planning Studies for the Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) Process
Transmission planning studies help power system planners determine how they can best supply load with renewable energy. The early steps of the REZ process ...
Technology Basics
Electric vehicles offer many benefits compared to conventional vehicles that use internal combustion engines, but also face numerous barriers to deployment.
References
Methods for Procuring Power System Flexibility
This fact sheet reviews administrative and market-based mechanisms for procuring a cost effective mix of flexible resources needed to ensure system reliability ...
Wind and Solar on the Power Grid: Myths and Misperceptions
Wind and solar are inherently more variable and uncertain than the traditional dispatchable thermal and hydro generators that have historically provided a ...
Renewable Energy Zones
REZ Fact Sheet
Grid-Integrated Distributed Solar: Addressing Challenges for Operations and Planning
Distributed, grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) solar power poses a unique set of benefits and challenges. This brief overviews common technical impacts of PV on ...
Economic Potential Assessments
Technical Potential Assessments
Scaling Up Renewable Energy Generation: Aligning Targets and Incentives With Grid Integration Considerations
Countries around the world have established ambitious targets for increasing the contribution of renewable energy toward meeting their national energy demand. ...
Topics & Resources
WREZ Charter
wrez charter
DESIGNING WIND AND SOLAR POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS TO SUPPORT GRID INTEGRATION
Power purchase agreements (PPAs) represent one of many institutional tools that power systems can use to improve grid services from variable renewable energy ...
Markets and regulation
Energy storage represents a new type of power system asset, able to act as both generation and load. As such, it may require additional regulations and ...
Forecasting Wind and Solar Generation
Forecasting is a crucial and cost- effective tool for integrating variable renewable energy (VRE) resources such as wind and solar into power systems.
Grid Integration Studies: Data Requirements
A grid integration study is an analytical framework used to evaluate a power system with high penetration levels of variable renewable energy (VRE). A grid ...
Integrating Variable Renewable Energy Into the Grid: Key Issues
To foster sustainable, low-emission development, many countries are establishing ambitious renewable energy targets for their electricity supply. Because solar ...
Transmission Expansion Planning
Procurement, financing, and business models
Access to financing and the presence of financially viable business models for energy storage are prerequisites for supporting storage market development. ...
The Role of Storage and Demand Response
Affordably integrating high levels of variable renewable energy (VRE) sources such as wind and solar requires a flexible grid. Storage and demand response ...
Grid services and value-stacking
Energy storage systems are capable of providing a wide range of system services depending on where they are interconnected and their technical characteristics.
Forecasting (Spanish)
Spanish-language forecasting fact sheet
Fact Sheets
Policy and Regulation
Policymakers at different levels of government—local, regional, federal—can incentivize electric vehicle (EV) deployment through a variety of policies.
Private Sector Engagement
Implementing Renewable Energy Zones for Integrated Transmission and Generation Planning
In many countries, integrating significant renewable energy to the grid requires new transmission to access the best wind and solar resources and accommodate ...
Building Blocks for Distributed PV Deployment, Part 2: Interconnection and Public Policy
Due in part to the low cost of photovoltaic system hardware and scalability for deployment, grid-connected distributed photovoltaic (DPV) technologies are ...
Transmission Planning for a High Renewable Energy Future: Lessons from the Texas Competitive Renewable Energy Zones Process
The webinar provided an overview of the Texas Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) process, including the regulatory, procedural and technical ...
External Training Resources
Scroll through the list below to find training resources offered by other organizations on a variety of grid integration topics.
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