Securing our Energy Future: The Value of Resource Adequacy
The need for reliable electricity services has never been greater. As the need has grown, so have the challenges and risks facing energy companies in planning how to provide for new demand. These planning challenges, and the short- and long-term impacts they may cause, include outages caused by extreme weather events, changes in load due to increased electrification (for example, transportation), and changes in the resource mix (variable renewables, etc.).
Many companies are finding that new planning methods may be needed to quantify better the size, frequency, and duration of outages and find the right resource solutions to serve load when it is needed.
Our guests this week discuss these issues and some of the new developments in the area of resource adequacy:
• Irene Danti Lopez is a Senior Engineer at EPRI. Her research focuses primarily on Resource Adequacy and Flexibility. Irene has also worked in Electricity Markets and Optimization. She has worked at EPRI for two years and lives in France.
• Genevieve de Mijolla is a Technical Leader at EPRI, primarily focusing on resource adequacy research. She has worked at EPRI for two years and lives in Massachusetts. She previously worked with GE Energy Consulting in production cost modeling and renewable integration.