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While much of Washington and the energy policy community spent this year preoccupied with the vicissitudes of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), pending actions at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will determine whether the IRA’s 10-year extension of clean energy tax credits can successfully drive the nation towards decarbonization. With Senator Manchin’s energy permitting…

Introduction The process for connecting large generators to the bulk electric system in the United States (U.S.) was designed in the early 2000’s. For about a decade, wind and natural gas resources had the largest share in the interconnection queues and have since then grown into mature technologies, with sophisticated plants designed by experienced engineers.…

Transmission and energy storage are centerpiece policies designed to address extreme weather and an evolving resource mix. Electric vehicles (EVs), which could represent up to 27% of global electricity demand by 2050, add an often overlooked option to cost-effectively enhance grid resilience and flexibility. If transmission transmits electricity across land, and batteries absorb and release…

The “grid of the future” is increasingly the grid of the present – at least in places like California, Texas, Hawaii, and Australia. Customer devices are playing an active role in power supply and grid stability – as demonstrated by the nearly 1GW of behind-the-meter batteries supporting California’s recent peak event. Yet, transmission and distribution…

The way that demand flexibility and distributed resources are modelled in resource adequacy has a significant impact on resource adequacy. That impact will grow over time as decentralization of the power system continues apace. Resource Adequacy Is About the Ability to Avoid Load Shedding Grids have inherited a resource adequacy assessment framework that has been…