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Distributed Energy Resource Participation In Wholesale Markets: Lessons From The California Iso, Justin Gundlach, Romany M. Webb
Distributed Energy Resource Participation In Wholesale Markets: Lessons From The California Iso, Justin Gundlach, Romany M. Webb
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
This article examines CAISO’s DER program after its first year of operation. It draws on written comments submitted to CAISO in the course of program development and on interviews the authors conducted with stakeholders – including active and potential DERPs, investor-owned utilities, and customer groups – to identify “barriers” to program participation. Irrespective of whether these barriers are appropriate – e.g., to ensure continued wholesale system reliability as DER penetration increases – they have clearly prevented the DER program fulfilling CAISO’s stated goal. The barriers should, therefore, be considered by other ISO/RTOs in developing programs with similar goals. The authors …
Climate Change Impacts On The Bulk Power System: Assessing Vulnerabilities And Planning For Resilience, Justin Gundlach, Romany M. Webb
Climate Change Impacts On The Bulk Power System: Assessing Vulnerabilities And Planning For Resilience, Justin Gundlach, Romany M. Webb
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
As the scale, speed, and implications of climate change come into focus, stakeholders in the electricity sector are finding it increasingly difficult to turn a blind eye. However, many have opted to attend to climate impacts in a piecemeal fashion, often merely responding to particular extreme events – or types of extreme events, such as coastal storms or floods – and failing to consider the larger phenomenon. This is true of the bulk power system (BPS) in regions overseen by Independent System Operators and Regional Transmission Organizations (collectively, ISO/RTOs), none of which have comprehensively assessed their systems’ vulnerabilities to climate …
Microgrids And Resilience To Climate-Driven Impacts On Public Health, Justin Gundlach
Microgrids And Resilience To Climate-Driven Impacts On Public Health, Justin Gundlach
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
“Resilience” has burst into the lexicons of several policy areas in recent years, owing in no small part to climate change’s amplification of extreme events that severely disrupt the operation of natural, social, and engineered systems. Fostering resilience means anticipating severe disruptions and planning, investing, and designing so that such disruptions, which are certain to occur, are made shallower in depth and shorter in duration. Thus a resilient system or community can continue functioning despite disruptive events, return more swiftly to routine function following disruption, and incorporate new information so as to improve operations in extremis and speed future restorations. …