This is the third in a series of posts about how system-scale perspectives are vital to the planning and development of sustainable power systems, including hydropower. This post will focus on how ...

The rapid growth in the proportion of renewable-energy generation, such as wind and solar power, has significantly heightened the power system’s dependence on climate. Global climate change will ...

Planning and operating a power system requires detailed grid studies to guide investment decisions and prepare for how the system may evolve over time. Long-term planning can identify the policy, ...

Salt River Project (SRP) has become one of the first U.S. utilities to shift from an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to an Integrated System Plan (ISP), a “holistic roadmap” that takes into account ...

In hydro-dependent power systems, water availability varies due to droughts and climate variability, increasing the risk of supply shortages. We present an integrated framework for planning generation ...

The virtual power plant (VPP) is an increasingly popular choice for realizing the aggregation, optimization, and control of flexible resources that are not necessarily within the same geographical ...