Corporate acceleration of the renewable energy transition and implications for electric grids

E O'Shaughnessy, J Heeter, C Shah… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Corporations are the fastest growing source of renewable energy demand in the United
States and other key markets. Corporate demand has grown from about 5% of all US …

Non-synchronous fast frequency reserves in renewable energy integrated power systems: A critical review

H Karbouj, ZH Rather, D Flynn, HW Qazi - International Journal of Electrical …, 2019 - Elsevier
The last few decades have seen renewable energy source (RES) integration growing at a
rapid pace and this trend is likely to continue. The displacement of conventional …

The challenges of achieving a 100% renewable electricity system in the United States

P Denholm, DJ Arent, SF Baldwin, DE Bilello… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Understanding the technical and economic challenges of achieving 100% renewable
energy (RE) electric power systems is critical, given the increasing number of United States …

Terawatt-scale photovoltaics: Transform global energy

NM Haegel, H Atwater Jr, T Barnes, C Breyer, A Burrell… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Solar energy has the potential to play a central role in the future global energy system
because of the scale of the solar resource, its predictability, and its ubiquitous nature. Global …

Quantifying the challenge of reaching a 100% renewable energy power system for the United States

WJ Cole, D Greer, P Denholm, AW Frazier, S Machen… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
We simulate pathways for achieving up to 100% renewable energy (RE) electric power
systems for the contiguous United States. Under base conditions, the least-cost buildout has …

The value of inter-regional coordination and transmission in decarbonizing the US electricity system

PR Brown, A Botterud - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Preventing global warming in excess of 1.5° C–2° C requires a transition to zero-carbon
electricity systems by midcentury along with the widespread electrification of other sectors …

Too much of a good thing? Global trends in the curtailment of solar PV

E O'Shaughnessy, JR Cruce, K Xu - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems generate electricity with no marginal costs or emissions. As
a result, PV output is almost always prioritized over other fuel sources and delivered to the …

Grid-forming control for solar PV systems with power reserves

B Pawar, EI Batzelis, S Chakrabarti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a grid-forming control (GFC) scheme for two-stage photovoltaic (PV)
systems that maintains power reserves by operating below the maximum power point (MPP) …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the impact of non-synchronous wind and solar generation on grid stability and identifying mitigation pathways

SC Johnson, JD Rhodes, ME Webber - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
High penetrations of non-synchronous renewable energy generation can decrease overall
grid stability because these units do not provide rotational inertia in the same way as …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating rotational inertia as a component of grid reliability with high penetrations of variable renewable energy

SC Johnson, DJ Papageorgiou, DS Mallapragada… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Growth of electricity generation from variable renewable resources like wind and solar has
raised questions about future grid stability. This paper used several renewable energy …