Solar Future Studies Part II: Integrity and Equity Within the Solar Grid
This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a summary on the second part of the Solar Futures Study, which includes the discussion of integrity and equity within the solar grid.
The Solar Futures vision represents a dramatic change in the composition and operation of the U.S. electric power system. With terawatt-scale deployment of solar, wind, and battery storage technologies by 2050, the grid becomes increasingly reliant on weather-dependent variable renewable energy (VRE) inverter-based resources (IBRs). A significant share of photovoltaics (PV) and storage may be installed as distributed energy resources (DERs), sited at residential and commercial properties.
This presentation introduces the second part of the Solar Futures Study which discusses reliability and the factors associated with it, which can be expressed as the three Rs: resource adequacy (RA), operational reliability, and resilience. The presentation continues further to discuss additional considerations and research needs that are associated with resource adequacy in a high-solar future. It also discusses solutions and research agenda that grid operators and planners need to address to maintain operational reliability under increased deployment, including grid resilience and cybersecurity. The presentation then focuses on the role of solar through the lens of equity by discussing the distribution of benefits and costs and evaluating procedural justice and just transition issues in relation to solar energy.
This 3 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to governments, businesses, and green energy engineers who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the economic, social, and environmental benefits of clean, zero-carbon electricity.
- Exploring the process of reliably integrating solar energy onto the grid by discussing the maintenance of resource adequacy in Solar Futures Scenarios
- Envisioning research priorities for grid resilience and cybersecurity
- Understanding the role of solar through the lens of equity by discussing the distribution of benefits and costs
- Evaluating procedural justice and just transition issues in relation to solar energy
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