Many U.S. jurisdictions are dealing with the impacts of unprecedented anticipated load growth at the same time the generation resource mix is in a major state of flux. As a result, electricity grid planning activities are becoming substantially more complex and their outcomes that much more impactful. State agency professionals responsible for ensuring effective electricity grid planning which serves the public interest at least cost need to be empowered with essential skills that enable comprehensive reviews of forecasting and resource adequacy activities.
To meet this need, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are offering a webinar series to help regulatory agency and state energy office staff, among others, gain a solid understanding of key concepts, learn to apply practical forecasting methods to predict future demands, and master techniques for assessing and ensuring adequate resources.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provided the financial support for this webinar series.
Contact: Peter Cappers, PACapper@lbl.gov
Descriptions of and registration links for each webinar are provided below.
This webinar will provide an overview of power system planning fundamentals, as well as the data and models typically used in such activities.
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This webinar will demystify basic forecasting methods, their application at both the bulk-power system and distribution system levels, and how they feed into utility decision making.
This webinar will demonstrate how to use best practices in forecasting new end-uses and new utility customers who will put additional electricity demands on the grid in the future.
This webinar will demonstrate how to use best practices in forecasting distributed energy resources to assess future energy needs.
This webinar will provide an overview of the core concepts of resource adequacy in order to enable a more critical assessment of utility resource adequacy plans and to understand the crucial implications of different modeling approaches and benchmarking methods.
This webinar will provide an overview of the core concepts of system planning to ensure that it effectively addresses emerging transmission and distribution system challenges, from extreme weather to shifting resource mixes.
This webinar will provide an overview of the core concepts of resource accreditation, how resource accreditation has evolved over time, and how that transition may impact resource adequacy and system planning efforts now and in the future.