Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources

Frick, Natalie Mims; Price, S.; Schwartz, Lisa; Hanus, Nichole; Shapiro, B.H.

doi:10.2172/1765585

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“…It builds on longstanding foundational research by Berkeley Lab on the magnitude and cost of energy efficiency programs funded by utility customers-significant contributors to resource adequacy-and projections of future energy savings for utility systems. 4 It also expands on recent reports documenting examples of utilities treating energy efficiency on a comparable basis to generating resources in bulk power system planning, and using energy efficiency and other DERs as non-wires alternatives to meet distribution system needs (Frick et al 2020a, Frick et al 2020b.…”

Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 97%

“…Some improvements to quantifying the reliability and resilience benefits of energy efficiency may require broader changes to BPS planning processes. Recent Berkeley Lab research identifies asymmetries in the way energy efficiency and supply side resources are assessed in BPS planning processes (Frick et al 2020b). Utilities' limited use of energy efficiency as a resource suggests that the reliability contributions of efficiency to the BPS are often not adequately captured.…”

Section: Improve Traditional Voll Approaches Through Development and Use Of A Framework To Quantify Dermentioning

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Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities

Frick¹,

Carvallo²,

Schwartz³

2021

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Grid reliability and resilience are foundational to meeting electricity needs and have significant economic and societal impacts. 1 Energy efficiency can help meet grid reliability objectives and improve resilience, but metrics and methods used today may not fully recognize these benefits. This technical brief-aimed at state regulators and policy makers, utilities, and stakeholders-explains how existing planning processes for bulk power and distribution systems capture the impact of energy efficiency on power system reliability and resilience. We identify limitations in using existing reliability and resilience metrics to quantify efficiency and other distributed energy resource (DER) benefits. The brief concludes with opportunities for enhancing planning practices to better capture the reliability and resilience value of energy efficiency and identifies research needs.4 See https://emp.lbl.gov/projects/what-it-costs-save-energy and https://emp.lbl.gov/projects/projections-spending. 5 We do not discuss utility distribution system efficiency measures-conservation voltage reduction or volt-VAR optimization. We also do not explore in detail reliability and resilience benefits of DERs other than efficiency, such as demand response, battery storage, microgrids, and managed charging of electric vehicles. For additional information on the reliability and resilience benefits of these DERs, see Rickerson et al. 2019, Rickerson and Zitelman forthcoming,

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Section: Resiliencementioning

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Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities

Frick¹,

Carvallo²,

Schwartz³

2021

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“…• Capacity value: avoided capital and associated fixed costs for new generation facilities • Energy value: DER's own energy generation or energy arbitrage can reduce power plant fuel, operation, maintenance, startup and shutdown costs • Ancillary service value, including contingency reserves, ramping, and frequency regulation • Non-wires alternatives: intelligent coordination of load and supply to defer or avoid the capital costs for transmission and distribution upgrades • Voltage support value (Eid et al 2016;Frick et al 2021;Neukomm, Nubbe, and Fares 2019).…”

Section: Values Of Distributed Energy Resourcesmentioning

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A Primer on FERC Order No. 2222: Insights for International Power Systems

Zhou¹,

Hurlbut²,

Xu³

2021

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“…Distributed wind and other DERs can often offer more than a single value element over their usable life. These benefit streams can include energy generation, ancillary services, environmental benefits, and renewable energy credits, as well as other benefits [37][38][39]. In addition to benefits accruing in various forms, they can also be attributed to various parties and be calculated using different methodologies.…”

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Valuation of Distributed Wind in an Isolated System

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Remote communities are increasingly adopting renewable energy, such as wind, as they transition away from diesel energy generation. It is important to understand the benefits and costs of wind energy to isolated systems so that decision-makers can optimize their choices in these communities. There are few examples of valuation of wind energy as a distributed resource and numerous differences in valuation approaches, especially in the inclusion of environmental and economic impacts. We apply a distributed wind valuation framework to calculate the benefits and costs of wind in St. Mary’s, Alaska, to the local electric cooperative and to society, finding that the project does not have a favorable benefit-to-cost ratio unless societal benefits are included, in which case the benefit-to-cost ratio is nearly double. Government funding is important to reducing the initial capital expenditures of this wind project and will likely be the case for projects with similar characteristics. Additional fuel savings benefits are potentially possible for this project through technological additions such as energy storage and advanced controls.

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Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities

Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities

A Primer on FERC Order No. 2222: Insights for International Power Systems

Valuation of Distributed Wind in an Isolated System

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