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Microgrids for Energy Resilience: A Guide to Conceptual Design and Lessons from Defense Projects
This playbook from the Rocky Mountain Institute offers a comprehensive framework for regulators, utilities, and developers to design and implement non-wires solutions (NWS). NWS are alternatives to conventional grid infrastructure upgrades that use distributed resources, demand re...
Booth, S. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2019
Economic Analysis of Battery Energy Storage Systems
Battery energy storage systems (BESS) enable energy arbitrage, demand charge reduction, backup power and integration of renewable resources. This World Bank report analyses the economics of BESS deployment in different contexts. It reviews capital costs, operational costs and reve...
Clean Energy Global Solutions Group, E. and Practice, G. World Bank Group Energy and Extractives
Apr 30, 2020
The Non-Wires Solution Implementation Playbook: A Practical Guide for Regulators, Utilities, and Developers
Non-wires solutions (NWS) such as energy efficiency, demand response, distributed generation and microgrids can defer or avoid traditional grid upgrades. This playbook from the Rocky Mountain Institute provides a step-by-step guide for regulators, utilities and developers to plan ...
Dyson, M. et al Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Dec 31, 2017
The Impact of Short-term Stochastic Variability in Solar Irradiance on Optimal Microgrid Design
This paper proposes a new methodology to capture the impact of fast moving clouds on utility power demand charges observed in microgrids with photovoltaic (PV) arrays, generators, and electrochemical energy storage. It consists of a statistical approach to introduce sub-hourly eve...
Schittekatte, T. et al University of Madrid
May 02, 2018
Scaling Up Energy Efficiency Investment in Emerging Markets Private Sector Perspectives
Since 2000, electricity demand has flattened and decoupled from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. This trend is anticipated to continue for the next several decades and is largely attributed to the im...
Foster, J. et al U.S. Agency for International Development
Dec 31, 2019
Microreactor Program Review 2024
Summarizes agenda and goals for the microgridprogram review sessions, including progress to date, milestone tracking, and collaboration opportunities. Highlights vision to enable multiple domestic commercial microreactor demonstrations through cross‑cutting research and devlopme...
Jackson, J. et al Idaho National Laboratory
Dec 31, 2024
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Microgrid Controller Survey Report: 2024 Update
In the past decade, the number of microgrids deployed by electric utilities, end-use customers, and third parties has been increasing significantly both in the US and worldwide. The increase is driven by various reasons, such as carbon emission reduction, energy efficiency improve...
Liu, G. and Starke, M. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mar 31, 2024
Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions
This paper presents an investigation of the economic benefit of thermal energy storage (TES) for cooling, across a range of economic and climate conditions. Chilled water TES systems are simulated for a large office building in four distinct locations, Miami in the U.S.; Lisbon, ...
DeForest, N. et al Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory
Apr 14, 2014
Resilience and Economics of Microgrids with PV, Battery Storage, and Networked Diesel Generators
Current designs and assessments of microgrids have ignored component reliability, leading to significant errors in predicting a microgrid's performance while islanded. Existing life cycle cost studies on hybrid microgrids—which combine photovoltaics (PV), battery storage and net...
Marqusee, J. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2020
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