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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
Clean Energy for Resilient Communities: Expanding Solar Generation in Baltimore's Low-Income Neighborhoods
Commissioned by the Abell Foundation and authored by the Clean Energy Group, this report explores how solar energy can improve resilience in low-income neighborhoods in Baltimore. It evaluates opportunities for installing solar PV and storage on community buildings, examines finan...
Sanders, R. and Milford, L. Clean Energy Group (Prepared for the Abell Foundation)
Jan 31, 2014
FERC Order No. 2222 Explainer: Facilitating Participation in Electricity Markets by Distributed Energy Resources
This explainer from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) summarizes Order No. 2222, which requires regional transmission organizations and independent system operators to remove barriers that prevent distributed energy resources (DER) from participating in wholesale mar...
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Jan 22, 2025
Tribal Energy: Federal Assistance to Support Microgrid Development
This Government Accountability Office report reviews federal assistance available to tribes seeking to deploy microgrids and other distributed energy resources. It identifies funding and technical support programs administered by agencies such as the Department of Energy, Departme...
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Jul 21, 2024
Private, State, and Federal Funding and Financing Options to Enable Resilient, Affordable, and Clean Microgrids
This joint report by NARUC and the National Association of State Energy Officials compiles funding and financing mechanisms available to support microgrid projects. It describes federal grants and loan programs, state incentives, and private-sector financing models such as third-p...
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, N.
Dec 31, 2020
Renewable Energy Integration in Remote Alaska Communities
NREL technical report examining renewable energy integration pathways in remote Alaska, with attention to microgrids serving community and health facilities. Topics include resource assessments, hybrid diesel, renewable configurations, storage, controls, and operational strategies...
Meadows, R. et al NLR
Jan 01, 2025
Community Resilience Options: A Menu for Enhancing Local Energy Resilience
This document highlights areas of potential community resilience improvements, especially those that relate to clean energy deployment for communities and municipalities. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) defines resilience as "a system's ability to anticipate, prepa...
Kramer, A. et al NLR
Apr 30, 2023
Design, Operation, and Controlled-Island Operation of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 Microgrid
This document reports on the design and operation of a high-capacity and high-penetration-ratio microgrid, which consists of 19 photovoltaic-powered residential houses designed by collegiate teams as part of their participation in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013...
Kurnik, C. et al NLR
Mar 31, 2015
A Novel Resilience-Oriented Cellular Grid Formation Approach for Distribution Systems with Behind-the-Meter Distributed Energy Resources
This paper presents a resilience-oriented cellular grid formation approach to achieve scalable and reconfigurable community microgrid operations for distribution systems with behind-the-meter distributed energy resources. A set of interconnected solar photovoltaics, energy storage...
Kumar, U. and Ding, F. NLR
Dec 31, 2022
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
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