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Smith, Wil [wsmith@epri.com]
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Hunter, David [DHUNTER@epri.com]
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Understanding Impacts of High Renewable Penetration: An EPRI, DOE, NREL, EPA, EIA Multi-Model Exploration
Attachments: Agenda EPRI DOE NREL EIA EPA Renewable Scenarios Modeling.pdf
Dear Colleague,
Please find attached the agenda for the December 12th Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Washington Seminar, "Understanding Impacts of High Renewable Penetration: An EPRI, DOE, NREL, EPA, EIA Multi-Model Exploration". Speakers from each of these organizations will present results and offer insights from a study of highpenetration variable renewable energy scenarios using each organization's own model. The seminar will take place Tuesday, December 12th, 2017, from 8:30 am to 1:15 pm at the The Capitol Hilton, 100116th ST NW, Washington DC. Lunch will be provided. Please rsvp to Wil Smith lwsmith@ei3ri.com) if you have not already done so.
Wind and solar deployment in the United States has grown at unprecedented rates in recent years. Over the past decade new capacity installations have been comprised almost solely of new wind, solar, and natural gas-based technologies. This growth and accompanying rapid technological progress have led operating wind capacity (82 GW) to surpass hydropower as the leading renewable technology on an installed capacity basis. Meanwhile new solar installation records (15 GW) were broken in 2016.
Whether this growth trajectory will continue is a key question for policy-makers and industry stakeholders. It is also a challenging question, given significant uncertainties surrounding competing technologies, demand growth, policies, and the degree of continued technology changes. U.S. power sector capacity expansion models are widely used to navigate this uncertainty and inform policy making, investment decisions, technology assessments, and evaluations of drivers and impacts of electric sector evolution.
Capacity expansion models represent a complex power system over long time-scales, typically decades. Doing so requires many simplifications. Tradeoffs between detail and computational tractability are required. The locationdependence, variability, and uncertainty of renewable energy add to the modeling challenges and, at high renewable energy penetrations, might call into question the validity of existing simplifications in the models.
To address these challenges, four national-scale capacity expansion modeling teams--from the Electric Power Research Institute, the Energy Information Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory--participated in a research project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy to compare modeling methods and results under high-penetration variable renewable energy scenarios.
This seminar will present findings and insights from the four modeling teams and Department of Energy. Speakers will discuss insights into high-penetration renewable scenarios and the strengths, limitations, and opportunities from the four capacity expansion models used. These findings will help analysts, policy-makers, and stakeholders better understand and interpret results from these modeling tools.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Seminar: 8:30 am -1:15 pm
Lunch will be provided The Capitol Hilton, 100116th ST NW, Washington DC
RSVP to: wsmsth@eprixom Name, Title, and Company
Please RSVP to Wil Smith, wsmith@epri.com.
We hope to see you there.
David
David E. Hunter, Ph.D.
Sr. Government and External Representative
Electric Power Research Institute
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Email: dhunter@epri.com
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