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Integrated Resource Plan For Portland General Electric (Pge), Mary Biswal, Alejandro Castelan
Integrated Resource Plan For Portland General Electric (Pge), Mary Biswal, Alejandro Castelan
Master's Projects and Capstones
An integrated resource plan (IRP) for Portland General Electric (PGE) is developed in this master’s project. The IRP is based on capacity expansion modeling for zero-carbon emission scenarios. PGE is a public electric utility based in Oregon and serves around 887,000 customers across a territory of 4,000 sq. miles. The utility’s resource mix is currently heavily dependent on natural gas making up almost 50% of its capacity. While the state renewable portfolio standards (RPS) require Oregon power utilities to derive 50% of their generation from renewable sources by 2040, PGE plans to move rapidly into a clean energy mix by …