The high share of PV energy requires greater system flexibility to address the increased demand/supply imbalance...
Grid-connected solar power generation, either dispersed or centralized, has developed and grown at the margin of a...
We investigate whether photovoltaics (PV) can effectively and economically contribute to a massively renewable energy...
We investigate whether PV can effectively and economically contribute to a massively renewable energy (RE) power...
Implicit storage – aka overbuilt and operationally curtailed variable renewable energy (RE) resources – is a...
Overbuilding and dynamic curtailment are increasingly acknowledged as central to cost-optimally transforming...
Large share of solar energy imposes a higher system flexibility to resolve the increased demand/supply imbalance due...
While it is widely known that the solar resource is sufficient to meet the world’s energy demand many times over, the...
This article describes a progressive strategy to achieve 100% penetration of intermittent renewables at minimal cost....
We introduce firm solar forecasts as a strategy to operate optimally overbuilt solar power plants in conjunction with...
One of the major problem of photovoltaic grid integration is limiting the solar-induced imbalances since these can...
This article proposes two strategies for the mitigation of power imbalances and related costs resulting from...
The famous inventor Edwin Land said, “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” He...
Current thinking considers that PV output curtailment is a last resort measure to be avoided. In this article, we...
Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM®) is showing what’s possible when utilities modernize their service request process. With more than 12,000 requests each year, from new home connections to complex commercial upgrades, PNM needed a better way to manage the...
This week, we’re pleased to present a guest post from GroundWork® Renewables’ Director of Data and Analytics Julie Chard. At GroundWork, we’re committed to delivering high-quality solar-meteorological (MET) data to reduce uncertainty in solar resource assessments. With more than 15 years of experience supporting the solar development community, our observational MET programs combine best-in-class equipment and […]
PV forecasts are important for energy scheduling and grid stability. Traditional methods for near-term forecasts involve blending an ensemble of Numerical Weather Predictions (NWPs) into a single deterministic output, which is favored because it is simple to implement in operations. However, deterministic forecasts do not convey any information about marginal risks or the propensity for […]