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Robust Procurement Planning for Community Choice Aggregators: Managing Market Price Uncertainty
Manar Jaradat, James Himelic, Neha Patankar
Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) play an important role in the energy transition by procuring renewable electricity for local communities while balancing affordability, resource…
Uncertainty-Aware Grid Planning in the Real World: A Method Enabling Large-Scale, Two-Stage Adaptive Robust Optimization for Capacity Expansion Planning
Gabriel Mantegna, Emil Dimanchev, Filippo Pecci +2
Capacity expansion models are frequently used to inform multi-billion dollar grid infrastructure decisions, a context in which there is significant uncertainty surrounding the futu…
Modelling to Generate Continuous Alternatives: Enabling Real-Time Feasible Portfolio Generation in Convex Planning Models
Michael Lau, Xin Wang, Neha Patankar +1
Decarbonization provides new opportunities to plan energy systems for improved health, resilience, equity, and environmental outcomes, but challenges in siting and social acceptanc…
Reducing transmission expansion by co-optimizing sizing of wind, solar, storage and grid connection capacity
Aneesha Manocha, Gabriel Mantegna, Neha Patankar +1
Expanding transmission capacity is likely a bottleneck that will restrict variable renewable energy (VRE) deployment required to achieve ambitious emission reduction goals. Interco…
Measuring Exploration: Review and Systematic Evaluation of Modelling to Generate Alternatives Methods in Macro-Energy Systems Planning Models
Michael Lau, Neha Patankar, Jesse D. Jenkins
As decarbonization agendas mature, macro-energy systems modelling studies have increasingly focused on enhanced decision support methods that move beyond least-cost modelling to im…
Establishing best practices for modeling long duration energy storage in deeply decarbonized energy systems
Gabriel Mantegna, Wilson Ricks, Aneesha Manocha +3
Long duration energy storage (LDES) may become a critical technology for the decarbonization of the power sector, as current commercially available Li-ion battery storage technolog…
Understanding the Role and Design Space of Demand Sinks in Low-carbon Power Systems
Sam van der Jagt, Neha Patankar, Jesse Jenkins
As the availability of weather-dependent, zero marginal cost resources such as wind and solar power increases, a variety of flexible electricity loads, or `demand sinks', could be…
Emissions and Energy Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act
John Bistline, Geoffrey Blanford, Maxwell Brown +29
If goals set under the Paris Agreement are met, the world may hold warming well below 2 C; however, parties are not on track to deliver these commitments, increasing focus on polic…
Reducing transmission expansion by co-optimizing sizing of wind, solar, storage and grid connection capacity
Aneesha Manocha, Neha Patankar, Jesse D. Jenkins
Expanding transmission capacity is likely a bottleneck that will restrict variable renewable energy (VRE) deployment required to achieve ambitious emission reduction goals. Grid in…
Land Use Trade-offs in Decarbonization of Electricity Generation in the American West
Neha Patankar, Xiili Sarkela-Basset, Greg Schivley +2
Land-use conflicts may constrain the unprecedented rates of renewable energy deployment required to meet the decarbonization goals of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This paper…
Improving the Representation of Energy Efficiency in an Energy System Optimization Model
Neha Patankar, Harrison G. Fell, Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz +2
Energy system optimization models (ESOMs) are designed to examine the potential effects of a proposed policy, but often represent energy-efficient technologies and policies in an o…
Building Conflict Uncertainty into Electricity Planning: A South Sudan Case Study
Neha Patankar, Anderson Rodrigo de Queiroz, Joseph F. DeCarolis +2
This paper explores electricity planning strategies in South Sudan under future conflict uncertainty. A stochastic energy system optimization model that explicitly considers the po…