T&D Grid

How to Think about Transmission Planning

ACORE

“Enabling the adoption of HVDC technology for offshore transmission is critical for achieving a cost-effective and less environmentally impactful offshore grid. Most important is the increased coordination that’s needed to deliver on all the recommendations.”

Future of Copper

S&P Global

S&P Global webinar excerpted, with remarks by S&P Global’s vice chair and acclaimed author, Dan Yergin, with Mohsen Bonakdarpour, Olivier Beaufils, John Mothersole, Keerti Rajan.

The Goal of the Grid

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies

The goal of the grid is to provide the necessary power capacity that links generators to loads, to maintain reliability under normal and stressed conditions, in a way that minimizes both capital and operational costs and maintains low costs to consumers.

Powering Arkansas

Arkansas Electric Cooperative

“We want to continue to have enough baseload power to reliably serve our members. That would be multiple types of resources, whether it’s nuclear, coal, or natural gas.”

3-D Grid Transformation: Mitigating the Risks

NERC

“Critical balancing capability is largely provided by highly flexible natural gas generation. We must invest to maintain (and improve) the natural gas system’s ability to meet the balancing needed to assure reliability.”

Managing the Western Interconnection

WECC

“We have delegated authority and responsibility from NERC to assure all registered entities in the Western Interconnection are complying with the mandatory reliability standards.”