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This 2022 LTRA is the ERO’s independent assessment and comprehensive report on the adequacy of planned BPS resources to reliably meet the electricity demand across North America over the next ten years. This 2022 LTRA also identifies reliability trends, emerging issues, and potential risks that could impact the long-term reliability, resilience, and security of the BPS.
The findings in this 2022 LTRA are vitally important to understand the reliability risks to the North American BPS as it is currently planned and as it is being shaped by government policies, regulations, consumer preferences, and economic factors. Energy systems and the electricity …
View Full ResourceBattery storage is a particularly difficult technology to assess with a BCA, for several reasons. For one thing, batteries are a multi-use resource, meaning that they can do lots of different things depending on decisions made by the user: for example, they can act as a generator or as a load, or as a transmission or distribution grid resource. Additionally, some of the benefits of battery storage, such as resilience, are hard to quantify with a dollar value, while other battery services are difficult to monetize in power markets, either because open markets do not yet exist (as with resilience) …
View Full ResourceWhat will it take to achieve a net-zero carbon emissions footprint for the US economy by 2050? This report from Energy Pathways USA helps strengthen the evidence base on what will be required for a robust US energy transition and elucidates key barriers and opportunities for reaching net-zero goals.
The authors examine past and present emissions trends and highlight common threads across recent quantitative analyses of potential net-zero trajectories, identifying sectors and shifts that could significantly boost decarbonization. Transforming the electricity grid—with clean energy production, increased high-voltage transmission, and grid modernization for resilience and reliability—is critical to all of these …
View Full ResourceThe demand for distributed energy resources (DER) like microgrids and solar projects is growing, thanks to the resilience it offers to companies, communities and homeowners. However, controlling DER surging growth is often challenged when the need for flexible grid interconnection meets legacy energy distribution and transmission methods.
What are your use case goals from DER sourcing? What do you hope to achieve from DER interconnection? A new playbook examines those questions and many others, showing how next-gen DERMS (distributed energy resource management systems) offer a proven path to innovative results like virtual power plants and other decarbonizing applications.…
View Full ResourceThis report, prepared by Clean Energy Group (CEG) with American Microgrid Solutions (AMS), examines the opportunity for resilient power, solar PV paired with battery storage (solar+storage), to provide reliable backup power to cooling centers when times of extreme heat coincide with power outages. Health impacts of extreme heat, the implications of extreme heat on the electric grid, and future extreme heat trends are also discussed. The report includes seven case studies, a critical facility in each region of the country, each with a technoeconomic analysis for installing and operating solar+storage. The report concludes with a discussion of project economics and …
View Full ResourceAccess to electricity is a crucial determinant of quality of life and productivity. The United States has a highly reliable electricity grid but it faces new resilience challenges posed by more intense natural disasters and rising state level green power requirements. Using a U.S electric utility panel dataset from 2013 to 2020, we document that natural disaster exposure disrupts service, but utilities have made some progress in adapting to such shocks. Over the last decade, there has been a tradeoff between achieving local carbon mitigation goals and offering reliable power access.…
View Full ResourceThe U.S. utility sector is undergoing significant changes impacting companies of varying sizes and service types. Investments in cleaner forms of energy production and the need to bolster infrastructure reliability is expected to drive utility capital spending in the next few years. Investors, regulators, and various other entities with diverse interests are critical in moving the industry forward.
In the electric power sector, more frequent extreme weather events are increasing stress on the grid and impacting system resilience. New renewable energy resources, especially those further away from load center, are further highlighting the urgent need for new transmission infrastructure to …
View Full ResourceThe Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which passed Congress in 2021 with bipartisan support, makes a historic and necessary $1.2 trillion investment in modernizing America’s infrastructure. Of that total investment, nearly $400 billion will be directed to clean energy infrastructure including initiatives for transportation, power and grid systems, technology demonstration programs, modernized permitting, and climate resilience. The American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) are working together to explore the opportunities and challenges inherent in these new federal investments.
Public investment has a poor record of keeping pace with infrastructure needs, and infrastructure …
View Full ResourceWe live in a time of immense change and swirling threats. A worldwide pandemic coupled with surging climate-related disasters and an accelerating digital transformation has concentrated minds. Resilience is no longer a niche topic for business continuity specialists but at the top of leaders’ action lists: and the time to act is now.
In this report, Guidehouse explores the key infrastructure resilience challenges that organizations face, the need to rethink old models of resilience in favor of a more holistic, evolutionary approach, and how best to create a strategy to build resilience.…
View Full ResourceAmidst energy transitions and the rising impacts of climate change, resilience is a growing part of state energy strategies. But there is relatively little consolidated information describing what states are doing to build adaptive capacities in the power sector. This report fills this gap. It examines how resilience is addressed in planning and policy resources from a selection of representative states. These resources describe anticipated hazards and vulnerabilities, use-cases for emerging clean energy technologies, and broader efforts to create new resilience institutions and authorities. Though resilience garners considerable policy attention, most state initiatives are not guided by well-defined performance goals …
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