Articles about Grid Integration and Transmission

A new study from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used high-performance computing capabilities and innovative...

Using Weather Data to Improve Capacity of Existing Power Lines

Argonne National Laboratory Develops New Model to Quantify the Impacts of Variable Energy Resources on Generation Expansion and System Reliability

A new study published by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) found that the U.S. Eastern...

A new report finds that with high penetrations of wind and solar on the grid, together with good system planning, sound engineering practices, and ...

Research and Development Needs for Wind Systems Utilizing Controllable Grid Simulators and Full Scale Hardware in the Loop Testing

A new report by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory identifies research opportunities to improve the ways in which wholesale electricity markets are designed, with a focus on how the characteristics of variable generation from wind and solar pow...

DOE recently funded a study that finds the deployment of at least 54 gigawatts of offshore wind power to be technically possible by 2030. The National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study (NOWEGIS), which focused on two DOE objectives in red...

Research conducted at the Scaled Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWiFT) in Lubbock, Texas, drew a lot of interest from attendees at the International Modal Analysis Conference held in Orlando, Florida, last February. According to a presentation given by...

According to the second annual Market Report on Wind Technologies in Distributed Applications soon to be published by DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. wind turbines in distributed applications reached a cumulative installed capacity of...