On the Path to SunShot. Emerging Issues and Challenges in Integrating High Levels of Solar into the Electrical Generation and Transmission System

Denholm, Paul; Clark, K.; O’Connell, Matthew

doi:10.2172/1253978

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“…While low-cost electricity from renewable sources is desirable, the issues of intermittency and grid balancing remain. [1][2][3] Energy storage is essential to enable even deeper penetration of renewables; to this end, it is important to take renewable electrons directly to fuels. Electrolyzing water to hydrogen is one possible solution that can integrate deeply in the energy and chemical production economy.…”

Section: Electrochemical Utilization Of Co 2 To Address the Energy Nementioning

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What Should We Make with CO2 and How Can We Make It?

Bushuyev

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Dinh

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Section: Electrochemical Utilization Of Co 2 To Address the Energy Nementioning

confidence: 99%

What Should We Make with CO2 and How Can We Make It?

Bushuyev

Luna

Dinh

et al. 2018

Joule

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842

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“…At low penetration, nearly all VRE generation can be utilized. However, as the VRE penetration increases, the potential for curtailment, which is the intentional reduction in generation from VRE generators when generation exceeds load, can substantially increase (Denholm and Margolis 2016;Denholm, Clark, and O'Connell 2016). VRE curtailment can result from insufficient transmission capacity to export surplus power to neighboring regions, the inability to store surplus energy, and/or the inability to ramp down generation from committed thermal units (Bird, Cochran, and Wang 2014;Fink et al 2009).…”

Section: Economics Of Energy Productionmentioning

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Variable Renewable Energy in Long-Term Planning Models: A Multi-Model Perspective

Cole

Frew

Trieu

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Long-term capacity expansion models of the U.S. electricity sector have long been used to inform electric sector stakeholders and decision makers. With the recent surge in variable renewable energy (VRE) generators-primarily wind and solar photovoltaics-the need to appropriately represent VRE generators in these long-term models has increased. VRE generators are especially difficult to represent for a variety of reasons, including their variability, uncertainty, and spatial diversity. To assess current best practices, share methods and data, and identify future research needs for VRE representation in capacity expansion models, four capacity expansion modeling teams from the Electric Power Research Institute, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory conducted two workshops of VRE modeling for national-scale capacity expansion models. The workshops covered a wide range of VRE topics, including transmission and VRE resource data, VRE capacity value, dispatch and operational modeling, distributed generation, and temporal and spatial resolution. The objectives of the workshops were both to better understand these topics and to improve the representation of VRE across the suite of models. Given these goals, each team incorporated model updates and performed additional analyses between the first and second workshops. This report summarizes the analyses and model "experiments" that were conducted as part of these workshops as well as the various methods for treating VRE among the four modeling teams. The report also reviews the findings and learnings from the two workshops. We emphasize the areas where there is still need for additional research and development on analysis tools to incorporate VRE into long-term planning and decision-making.

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“…Finally, LMI solar should be considered more broadly in the perspective of transmission and distribution grid-integration issues, such as the energy and capacity value of solar energy, potential for solar overgeneration, and the hosting capacity of local distribution networks. For more details on some of these issues see Denholm et al (2016) and Palmintier et al (2016).…”

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Rooftop Solar Technical Potential for Low-to-Moderate Income Households in the United States

Sigrin

Mooney

2018

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On the Path to SunShot. Emerging Issues and Challenges in Integrating High Levels of Solar into the Electrical Generation and Transmission System

Cited by 44 publications

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What Should We Make with CO2 and How Can We Make It?

What Should We Make with CO2 and How Can We Make It?

Variable Renewable Energy in Long-Term Planning Models: A Multi-Model Perspective

Rooftop Solar Technical Potential for Low-to-Moderate Income Households in the United States

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