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Integrating Renewables

Turning green generation into power BY THE EXPERTS AT THE WORLD WATCH INSTITUTE A grid system’s difficulty in absorbing variable generation can present an obstacle to the growth of renewable power, especially when continued improvements in infrastructure and market design are absent. There are...

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Clean Energy Technology

Canadian government showcases environmentally friendly Smart Grid projects BY PHILL FELTHAM, Editor-in-Chief In recent years, the Federal Government of Canada has collaborated with electric utilities and other industry organizations to digitize the country’s power grid with clean energy...

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Integrating Plug-In Electric Vehicles

Preparing the distribution grid to embrace PEVs BY ARINDAM MAITRA & JASON TAYLOR, Electric Power Research Institute As customer adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) continues to grow so does the potential for adverse consequences to distribution system operations and assets. These...

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Renewables in the T&D industry

Electricity Today’s annual Green Smart Grid Report on renewables in the T&D industry BY DOUG HOUSEMAN, IEEE, EnerNex Corp. When people talk about grid modernization, they often focus on the benefits of integrating renewable resources as distributed generation. For many stakeholders, that is...

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Connecting Hydropower to the Electric Grid

Quantifying investments for plant upgrades and new pumped storage BY LINDSEY ROGERS, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) In the early 1900s, hydro was the mainstay generation resource. Today, it has evolved to be a less prominent, but still highly valued, flexible form of renewable generation....

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Estimating Transmission Costs for New Generation Technologies

Often when project developers talk about the cost of a new power plant, wind farm, or solar installation, they’re referring to the capital cost of building a facility. Certainly those development costs have dropped over time—especially for wind and solar. But developers overlook the cost to...

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Energy Storage and Green Generation

The missing pieces of the energy puzzle

BY ANNETTE VERSCHUREN, NRStor

Global energy supply mixes are changing as policy makers adopt new and sustainable plans for the future. This includes the growth of intermittent renewable energy from wind and solar resources. As more renewables come online, our power supply becomes more variable, making it more difficult to manage the grid. Energy storage is one solution; it is the missing link between electricity supply and demand....

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