Consulting

Clean Power Research helps customers gain insight into the value and performance of their renewable energy resources.

The Consulting Group at Clean Power Research supports energy and economic analysis for clients in renewable energy and storage. With more than 60 man-years of utility renewables experience, Clean Power Research is a nationally recognized leader in PV economic valuation, modeling, and storage. Clients include state and federal energy agencies, electric utilities, universities, national laboratories and manufacturers.

Areas of expertise include:

Value of distributed PV (utility and customer perspectives)
Energy storage
PV fleet modeling
Net metering and feed-in-tariffs
Clean energy program design

Clean Power Research has lead the way in developing of new methods of valuing and modeling renewable energy sources. Successes include:

Method for determining the value of fuel price certainty of PV (avoiding fossil fuel price volatility)
Method for calculating marginal T&D loss savings, showing them to be significantly greater than average loss savings
Software tool for calculating utility avoided costs (value) for distributed PV
Tools to integrate historical, real-time, and forecast PV power into utility circuit analysis platforms