Tag Archives: Integrated grid
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Cyber Security Implications for an Integrated Grid
This white paper examines security challenges related to growing grid-connected distributed energy resources, including electric vehicle charging infrastructure and microgrids.
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Transactive Incentive Signals to Manage Energy Consumption (TIME): The System- and Market-Based Transactive Load Management (TLM)
Transactive load management uses demand response, control technologies, and communications with end-user devices to manage flexible energy flows in the grid. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative analyses from experts, this report proposes the design of a grid-integrated transactive load management signaling framework and deployment techniques.
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Storage Value Estimation Tool (StorageVET®)
StorageVET is a free, publicly available simulation tool that helps users examine the value of energy storage projects for a range of applications. It can inform design, siting, and operation of storage systems as well as policymaking and research.
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The Integrated Grid: Annual Report 2017 Initiative Demonstrations
EPRI is working with utilities on more than two dozen pilot projects globally to investigate the best ways to integrate new technologies, renewable energy, and advanced communication into the grid. This annual report discusses insights, accomplishments, challenges, and gaps.
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework for Evaluating Microgrids
This report discusses challenges with microgrid valuation, highlighting how the objectives of microgrid projects can inform assessments of their costs and benefits. It outlines a systematic cost-benefit analysis approach, adapted from EPRI’s Integrated Grid Framework.
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Integrated Grid Pilot Projects Quarterly Update: Q2 2017
This report discusses the latest milestones and findings with EPRI’s Integrated Grid pilot projects.
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Changing Utility Cost Pathways Amid Rising Deployment of Distributed Energy Resources
Increasing distributed energy resources in utility portfolios are expected to change electricity costs. Drawing on publicly available data, this white paper examines how costs change over time and as a result of resource mix, utility structure, and other factors. The analysis is intended to inform utilities, regulators, and policy makers as they consider cost recovery […]
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The Integrated Grid: Annual Report 2016 Initiative Demonstrations
Over the past two years, EPRI and its utility members launched more than two dozen demonstrations across the United States and Europe to test emerging technologies to integrate central and distributed energy resources. This report discusses insights and lessons from this work.
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The Integrated Grid: Annual Report 2016 Initiative Demonstrations
This report provides a two-year update on EPRI field demonstrations with 20 utilities to test technologies for enabling an integrated grid, along with top 10 lessons.
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Open Enabling Platform for Enterprise-Wide Interoperability and the Integrated Grid—Year One Update: Connecting the Present to the Future
This white paper is a year-one update on a multi-year EPRI project to develop an “open enabling platform” to support secure interoperability and connectivity across the electricity infrastructure.
