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 ...

Uhuru Falls in Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, the location of a proposed hydropower dam on the Victoria Nile. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images) ...

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, ...

In the ongoing quest to integrate renewable energy (RE) into power systems, a new study published in Engineering offers valuable insights into coordinated transmission, renewable, and storage ...

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 ...

As data centers and other large electrical loads proliferate across the United States, their impact on power systems planning, grid reliability, and interconnection processes has become increasingly ...

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 ...