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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
Geospatial Energy Mapper (GEM)
The Geospatial Energy Mapper (GEM) is a data-rich web portal managed by Argonne National Laboratory that integrates spatial datasets on energy infrastructure, land use, environmental sensitivity, and demographic characteristics. Users can visualize existing and proposed energy pro...
Argonne National Laboratory
Dec 31, 2025
DC Microgrids Scoping Study – Estimate of Technical and Economic Benefits
This 2015 scoping study led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, with contributions from several other national labs, assesses the potential technical and economic benefits of direct-current (DC) microgrids. The report compares DC and AC architectures in terms of efficiency, cost, r...
Backhaus, S. et al Los Alamos National Laboratory
Feb 28, 2015
Distributed Energy Resource Evaluation Tool (DER-VET)
DER-VET™ provides a free, publicly accessible, open-source platform for calculating, understanding, and optimizing the value of distributed energy resources (DER) based on their technical merits and constraints. An extension of EPRI's StorageVET® tool, DER-VET supports site-spe...
Electric Power Research Institute
Dec 17, 2024
Distributed wind-hybrid microgrids with autonomous controls and forecasting
Distributed wind-hybrid microgrids have the potential to provide key resilience and economic benefits to both the customers they serve and the utility grids they are connected to. Such microgrids will likely be a key part of the grid of the future, whether connected to large utili...
Anderson, B. et al NLR
Mar 01, 2023
Evaluation of MVDC Electrical Interties Connecting Remote Communities: an Alaska Case Study
This Alaska Center for Energy and Power report presents a techno-economic case study of interconnecting two remote, islanded power systems via a 25-mile electrical intertie. Using HOMER Pro models (including scenarios with energy storage), the analysis compares AC and DC intertie ...
Chamberlin, M. et al University of Alaska Fairbanks
Aug 21, 2023
Fuel Cell Backup Power System for Grid-Service and Micro-Grid in Telecommunication Applications
This paper presents the feasibility and economics of using fuel cell backup power systems in telecommunication cell towers to provide grid services (e.g., ancillary services, demand response). The fuel cells are able to provide power for the cell tower during emergency conditions....
Ma, Z. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2017
Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies
This dataset contains detailed cost and performance data for electricity generation technologies included in NREL's 2024 Annual Technology Baseline. The data provide capital costs, fixed and variable operating costs, capacity factors, and other technical parameters across technolo...
Akar, S. et al NLR
Dec 17, 2024
The impact of Ancillary Services in optimal DER investment decisions
Microgrid resource sizing problems typically include the analysis of a combination of value streams such as peak shaving, load shifting, or load scheduling, which support the economic feasibility of the microgrid deployment. However, microgrid benefits can go beyond these, and the...
Cardoso, G. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jun 30, 2017
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
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