ATLANTA – The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Section 6 (Electric Power/Energy Systems) and NERC have published a report, Evolving Planning Criteria for a Sustainable Power Grid (also available on NERC’s website), on electric reliability criteria for grid planning. The report summarizes the proceedings and actionable recommendations from a co-sponsored NAE Section 6 and NERC workshop held earlier this year. During that engagement, participants examined electric reliability criteria for planning resource and transmission adequacy on the transforming grid and focused on two broad topics: capacity vs. energy and planning the transforming transmission grid.
“There is little doubt that our dependence on electricity as the engine of our economy is increasing at a rapid pace,” said Mark Lauby, NERC’s senior vice president and chief engineer. “As the grid transforms, it is imperative that traditional planning criteria evolve to reflect a new reality in which energy adequacy becomes a critical complementary consideration of resource adequacy when addressing overall system reliability.”
The report identifies nine actionable topic areas that collectively form an improved approach to resource adequacy.
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