Innovations in Electricity Model Training

The National Council on Electricity Policy (NCEP) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory offered free virtual training on innovations in electricity system modeling, in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in October and November 2021.

Participants learned:

• What modeling tools and methods are available to plan distribution and bulk power systems with distributed energy resources (DERs), including comprehensive planning approaches
• How utilities analyze utility-scale and distributed storage in integrated resource planning, ways state officials can review the analysis, and how to improve evaluation of storage in planning
• How to assess technical and economic impacts of DERs for distribution and bulk power systems, and what changes are needed in load forecasting, potential assessments, and modeling to treat energy efficiency and demand response on a comparable basis to other resources during planning
• Ways to improve planning throughout the electricity system in the face of climate change

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