The Western Interstate Energy Board (WIEB) held a webinar of the new Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) paper “A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems” on Friday, October 27th at 11:00am PT/12:00pm MT/2:00pm ET.
Resource adequacy (RA) – the ability of the power system to meet load whenever and wherever is needed – has come under scrutiny with recent widespread interruptions due to weather events and the challenges brought on by decarbonization. The paper proposes a technical-institutional roadmap to assist regulators, system planners, and system operators with revising RA practices across specific components identified in the resource adequacy framework (see below).
First, the paper provides a critical review of current RA assessment practices based on interviews with practitioners.
Second, the paper reviews existing practices involving resilience assessments in planning and RA reports.
Third, the study develops a model for probabilistic RA assessment to explore how key choices about how to model power system operations affect the values that are obtained for RA metrics.
Fourth, it examines RA assessments an use this information to propose a guide of evolving standards for resource adequacy assessments in resource planning and transmission planning.
For questions on the report, please contact JP Carvallo, [email protected].
For questions on the webinar, please contact Tom Carr, [email protected].