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Forecasting Reserves: Current Research, a New Tool, and Next Steps
Read More: Forecasting Reserves: Current Research, a New Tool, and Next StepsAs power systems around the world have integrated wind and solar power, a crucial first step is to develop or procure a short-term forecasting system to support operations. Right now, anyone with significant penetration of variable energy resources (VER) that we’re aware of has some kind of a forecasting system for these resources. There is…
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Bethany Frew Elected to Energy Systems Integration Group Board of Directors
Read More: Bethany Frew Elected to Energy Systems Integration Group Board of DirectorsReston, Va. – The Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) announced that Bethany Frew, an engineer in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), was recently elected to the group’s board of directors. Frew was elected during the group’s annual membership meeting at its 2019 Spring Technical Workshop in Albuquerque, N.M.…
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Flexible Solar Power: Unlocking Solar’s Full Potential
Read More: Flexible Solar Power: Unlocking Solar’s Full PotentialOne critical element of a successful transformation of the grid with a high proportion of solar and wind power generation is the maintenance of power system flexibility. A flexible power system reliably supplies all customer energy demand at different time scales, from the very short to the long term — while managing the variability and…
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Building data intelligence for short-term load forecasting with behind-the-meter PV
Read More: Building data intelligence for short-term load forecasting with behind-the-meter PVISO New England (ISO-NE) has witnessed rapid adoption of behind-the-meter photovoltaics (BTM PV) in recent years, with roughly 160,000 systems totaling almost 3 gigawatts (GW) of nameplate capacity now installed across the region, and approximately 7 GW total anticipated by the end of the next decade. For a system with a 2018 summer peak load…
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Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) recognizes excellence with annual awards
Read More: Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) recognizes excellence with annual awardsMarch 21, 2019 – During its annual spring meeting, the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG), the leading source of global expertise for energy systems integration and operations, announced the winners of its 2019 Excellence Awards. These awards recognize energy professionals from around the world for their contributions and accomplishments toward the planning and operation of…
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There’s a paradigm shift coming. And it isn’t about renewables.
Read More: There’s a paradigm shift coming. And it isn’t about renewables.It’s about load. In our long-term reliability assessments, we tend to think of peak demand as a fixed quantity. We adjust it up for new loads such as EV growth, or down for demand response and DER growth, and we adjust it for weather. We consider the variability from wind, solar and hydro during that…