Renewable Energy & Grid Reliability

The US Department of Energy (DOE) produced a report on net energy metering (NEM) in response to a request from Congress. To gather information for the report, DOE conducted a Request for Information (RFI) and tasked ICF, Inc. to review 15 recent cost-benefit studies related to NEM. DOE’s report is a 10-page letter that summarizes the conclusions it drew from the responses to the RFI and from ICF’s report. ICF’s analysis for DOE, Review of Recent Cost-Benefit Studies Related to Net Metering and Distributed Solar, highlights the different value categories, approaches, and assumptions used in NEM cost-benefit analysis, value of solar studies, and broader DER valuation frameworks, emphasizing commonalities and differences between them, and how they are evolving over time. A short summary is available on ICF’s blog. The National Regulatory Research Institute released a Review of State Net Energy Metering and Successor Rate Designs, which summarizes state public utility commissions’ actions to find alternatives to the more commonly used net metering rate design. These alternative proposals include compensating for energy delivered to the grid at a price other than the retail service rate; increasing fixed charges and sometimes also minimum bills; time-varying rates; and adding demand-charges to bills for customers who did not have them previously.

Biomass helps in getting controllable CO2-neutral energy production. Converting from fossil fuel-fired energy generation to biomass can avert your assets to become stranded during the energy transition.

Survey the three most important sources of renewable energy: hydropower, wind power, and solar power. Look at the inner workings of hydroelectric dams, wind turbines, solar-thermal power stations, and photovoltaic arrays to see how each takes a renewable energy source and converts it into electricity. By the end of this course the student will survey the three most important sources of renewable energy: hydropower, wind power, and solar power. Look at the inner workings of hydroelectric dams, wind turbines, solar-thermal power stations, and photovoltaic arrays to see how each takes a renewable energy source and converts it into electricity.

Remote management is becoming the new norm for handling PowerGen installations. During this webinar, we will address the top 5 practical uses of remote management and dive into how they benefit your business.