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Technical Interconnection, Codes, and Equipment Standards
Power System Planning: Advancements in Capacity Expansion Modeling
An electricity capacity expansion model (CEM) is a tool used in long-term planning studies for the power sector. This fact sheet summarizes key advancements in ...
Tools & Templates
Technology basics
The technology used to store energy has important implications for the types of services that can be supplied. Some technologies are only suitable for bulk ...
Policy and Regulatory Environment for Utility-Scale Energy Storage: India
Energy storage has the potential to address many challenges in India's evolving power sector. This report was developed for policymakers to identify ...
Key Considerations for Adoption of Technical Codes and Standards for Battery Energy Storage Systems in Thailand
This report, written to support the Thailand Office of Energy Regulatory Commission, covers global best practices for battery energy storage systems and ...
Grid codes, interconnection, and safety
Safely, reliably, and cost-effectively connecting energy storage to the grid requires that utilities and customers follow interconnection rules that dictate ...
An Overview of Behind-The-Meter Solar-Plus-Storage Regulatory Design - Approaches and Case Studies to Inform International Applications
How should regulators, utilities, and policymakers manage the range of challenges and opportunities that increased behind-the-meter energy storage deployment ...
Modeling and planning
Quick Reads
Energy Storage Guidebook
The USAID-NREL team has made a new Energy Storage Guidebook available on Greening the Grid. Housed within the Energy Storage toolkit, the guidebook provides ...
Energy Storage Toolkit
USAID Energy Storage Decision Guide for Policymakers
This report is intended to give decision makers an initial layer of information needed to make informed policy, regulatory, and investment decisions regarding ...
Webinar on Utility-Scale Storage: If, When, What Type, How Much, and Where?
Topics & Resources
Markets and regulation
Energy storage represents a new type of power system asset, able to act as both generation and load. As such, it may require additional regulations and ...
Pilot Projects
Energy storage, with its ability to shift energy supply and demand, will play a larger role in the power system as countries around the world integrate large ...
Procurement, financing, and business models
Access to financing and the presence of financially viable business models for energy storage are prerequisites for supporting storage market development. ...
Energy Storage in South Asia: Understanding the Role of Grid Connected Energy Storage in South Asia’s Power Sector Transformation
Energy storage can provide many grid benefits, including flexibility. This study provides a first-of-its-kind assessment of cost-effective opportunities for ...
Grid services and value-stacking
Energy storage systems are capable of providing a wide range of system services depending on where they are interconnected and their technical characteristics.
Framework for Readiness Assessments of Utility-Scale Energy Storage
Energy storage can help address many of the challenges of the changing power sector by increasing system flexibility and strength. This report outlines a ...
Key Considerations for Adoption of Technical Codes and Standards for Battery Energy Storage Systems
Hosted on June 30, 2021, this webinar, based off a recently published technical report from NREL, presents global best practices of codes, standards, and ...
Building Blocks for Distributed PV Deployment, Part 2: Interconnection and Public Policy
Due in part to the low cost of photovoltaic system hardware and scalability for deployment, grid-connected distributed photovoltaic (DPV) technologies are ...
Strategies and Good Practices To Support Robust Stakeholder Engagement in Multi-Sector Energy Transition Planning
To help more practitioners incorporate inclusive decision-making into their programs, a team at NREL, led by Hallie Lucas, developed a new resource that shares ...
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