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Balancing Area Coordination: Efficiently Integrating Renewable Energy into the Grid
Coordinating balancing area operation can promote more cost and resource efficient integration of variable renewable energy (VRE), such as wind and solar, into ...
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 ...
Charging Infrastructure
EVs can refuel (i.e. charge) at electric vehicle supply equipment (ESVE) in different locations, such as homes, workplaces, or public charging stations, which ...
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 ...
Economic Potential Assessments
Environmental and Land Use Information to Support the Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) 2.0 Process
Environmental and Land Use Information to Support the Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) 2.0 Process
EV Fleets
Electrifying fleets of vehicles can have an outsized impact in reducing fuel consumption and emissions, improving local air quality, and achieving mobility ...
External Training Resources
Scroll through the list below to find training resources offered by other organizations on a variety of grid integration topics.
Fact Sheets
Featured Links
The following organizations provide technical assistance, capacity building, and peer knowledge exchange on grid integration topics. Targeted audiences vary ...
Forecasting (Spanish)
Spanish-language forecasting fact sheet
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.
Glossary
Greening the Grid Overview
This one-page fact sheet provides an introduction to the Greening the Grid project and summarizes program activities and offerings.
Grid codes, interconnection, and safety
Safely, reliably, and cost-effectively connecting energy storage to the grid requires that utilities and customers follow interconnection rules that dictate ...
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 ...
Grid Planning and Management
Electric vehicles (EVs) are new sources of demand for the electricity system. This demand, if not properly managed, may drive up system costs and require ...
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.
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 ...
GtG Overview (Spanish)
Spanish-language Greening the Grid Overview fact sheet
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 ...
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 ...
Key Issues (Spanish)
Spanish-language Key Issues Fact Sheet
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 ...
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 ...
Modeling and planning
Myths (Spanish)
Spanish-language Myths Fact Sheet
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
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. ...
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