Full Title: Renewables and Reliability: Grid Management Solutions to Support California's Clean Energy Future
Author(s): Union of Concerned Scientists
Publisher(s): Union of Concerned Scientists
Publication Date: March 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
California leads the nation in the transition to clean, safe, and renewable forms of electricity. The state is well on its way to supplying 33 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and is now considering a policy to get to 50 percent by 2030 — the most ambitious clean energy effort in the nation.
Ramping up renewable energy to this level is not only visionary, it’s realistic and achievable. To accomplish it, grid operators must effectively integrate an increasing amount of renewable electricity while maintaining cost-effective and reliable electricity to ratepayers.
The solutions are at hand. As the state plans for this clean electricity future, grid operators should deploy new methods, tools, and infrastructure that allow them to integrate more renewable energy and rely less on fossil fuels to maintain reliability on the grid.