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Tribal Microgrids Support Tenuous Lifelines During Grid Shutdowns
This piece explains how microgrids developed by tribal nations keep essential community services running when the bulk grid fails. By combining local renewable generation and storage, these microgrids power water systems, medical clinics, communications centers, and emergency shel...
Peterson, K. Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs
Oct 07, 2021
Integrating Renewable Energy: What You Need to Consider in Rural Alaska
ACEP guidance report for rural Alaska communities considering renewable integration into diesel-based microgrids, emphasizing that integration creates both opportunities and hidden costs. Explains why operating reserve capacity matters for sudden load changes and for managing inte...
Green, N. University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dec 31, 2020
Integrated Distribution System Planning 2.0: Planning for Electrification and Distributed Energy Resources
Berkeley Lab, in partnership with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and National Association of State Energy Officials, provided training in Charlotte, North Carolina, on December 11-12, 2024, on Integrated Distribution System Planning 2.0: Planning for ...
Schwartz, L. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dec 01, 2024
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Cost-Optimal Pathways to 75% Fuel Reduction in Remote Alaskan Villages: Preprint
There are thousands of isolated, diesel-powered microgrids that deliver energy to remote communities around the world at very high energy costs. The Remote Communities Renewable Energy program aims to help these communities reduce their fuel consumption and lower their energy cost...
Simpkins, T. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2014
Power Sector Transformation Pathways: Exploring Objectives, Factors. and Technology Innovations to Inform Power Sector Pathway Decisions
The power and heating sectors are responsible for around 30% of global CO2 emissions and this share is likely to grow as countries move towards electrification of the transportation and building sectors. Therefore, enabling forward-thinking, long term strategies in the power secto...
Cox, S. et al NLR
Jan 31, 2020
Updating Distributed Energy Resource Interconnection Rules A Guide for Local Authorities
This guide, produced by NREL in collaboration with IREC, provides local authorities and regulators with a roadmap for updating distributed energy resource interconnection standards to align with IEEE Std 1547-2018. It explains the technical changes introduced in the revised stand...
NLR
Jun 30, 2023
A Framework for Integrated Distribution System Planning: Presentation for Ameren Illinois workshop
Lisa Schwartz presented at an Ameren Illinois stakeholder workshop on an objectives-based decision framework for investing in local grids. The interactive decision framework on integrated distribution system planning walks through a stakeholder-informed process for grid investment...
Schwartz, L. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sep 22, 2024
Optimal Planning of Nuclear-Renewable Micro-Hybrid Energy System by Particle Swarm Optimization
To minimize the anticipated shocks to economic, environmental, and social systems for
developing and least developed countries, the reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions is mandatory to a large extend. The nuclear-renewable integrated system is proficient in optimal energy d...
Gabbar, H. et al Ontario Tech University
Oct 13, 2020
Performance Evaluation and Costs of a Combined Ground Source Heat Pump and Solar Photovoltaic Storage System in an Extreme Cold Climate
This report outlines the effectiveness and economics of a ground source heat pump system installed together with solar photovoltaic panels and a battery storage system in a local community building situated in a cold climate. The community building is a tribal building located in ...
Truffer-Moudra, D. et al NLR
May 31, 2023
Chefornak Energy Configuration Options: Energy Infrastructure Optimization to Reduce Fuel Cost and Dependence in Chefornak, Alaska
The U.S. Department of Energy is funding, through the Grid Modernization Program, the Alaska Microgrid Partnership (AMP), a multi-stakeholder collaborative comprised of national labs and Alaska based partners. The over-arching goal of AMP is to reduce the use of total imported fue...
Jimenez, A. U.S. Department of Energy
Dec 31, 2017
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